Monday, October 29, 2012

"Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down." -- Proverbs 26:20

What in this life and in this world do you feed with your energy?  Whether it's your time, your money, your attention, or your presence, your engagement with the world feeds it.  You yourself are like tinder and oxygen to a fire.  What do you want to feed?  If you feed pettiness, drama, and cheap thrills, you will strengthen the influence and hold of things that do not build up, but instead tear down.  If, on the other hand, you feed things of beauty and worth, then your living itself will make the world a better place.  You have more power than you think.  Choose wisely that to which you give your life.

Readings:  Lamentations 2:20-3:66; Hebrews 1:1-14; Psalm 102:1-28; Proverbs 26:21-22