The Good Rat Race

Teach about Kierkegaard. Meet for coffee Thursday afternoon. Go to a planning session for the U2charist service. Meet with Paul to reflect on life. Cook lunch for staff after staff meeting. Funny how we can break our days down into bits and pieces. Quickly life ebbs and flows away. Especially when you are engaged in doing the "good things" and "fighting the good fight of faith." We are aren't we? We run the good rat race right?

It's amazing how easy it is to get caught up in the details and the doing and to forget about what's important. Such is part of the reason why I have taken to running in the morning and enjoying the silence of the sunrise out the back window of the house where I live. I appreciate mornings more now. There is something holy about the stillness of the morning and the fog as it seeps around you--especially when running. There is much to be said about delight and pleasure in the simple things of life. All too quickly it passes away and is gone. May this day be a moment where the quiet catches you off guard and you are made fully aware of all with which you have been graced and blessed.