Sun 23 Sep 2007
Tomorrow I go in for knee replacement surgery. While I’m not worried, any major change in life gives one pause for philosophical thoughts. My thought for today is a paraphrase of the Psalms.
“What are human beings that God should give us a second look? We are insignificant balls of dust being blown around like tumbleweeds in a desert until we encounter the Spring of Living Water and become clay in the Potter’s hand. Then we are shaped into vessels to be of use to God.”
Sun 19 Aug 2007
With the approach of the big 50 Anniversary, I ponder about time. (No, I didn’t mean it’s about time I ponder.)
With each tick of a clock we are suddenly thrust from one time to another — from one day to another — one month or one year to another. The past fades quickly into pools of memories and the future stands before us like an unread book. I think wisdom is seeing the past for what it was and the future for what it can become and living the present as a melding of the two, no matter how imperfectly. When I think I am most wise, I am fool of fools. When I am foolish? Only God knows.
© Mary Lu Warstler, 2007