LIVE EACH MOMENT=IN THE GRACE OF GOD

 

LIVE EACH MOMENT

IN THE GRACE OF GOD

Have you ever wondered

How much TIME that you have

To live?

What would you do

If God told you-

You had 1 day-1 week-

One month-or one year to live?

Would you LIVE differently?

I would bet that you would

God gave me that WISDOM-

That knowledge-WHEN-I was

A very young man

And ever since-

I have tried to live each day

Like it could be my last

Life is OH SO FRAGILE-

And you just never know

How much TIME that you do have

“When Hezekiah was mortally ill

The prophet Isaiah-son of Amoz-

Came and said to him:

'Thus says the Lord:

PUT your house in order

For you are about to die'” Isaiah 38:1

Hezekiah TURNED to God in PRAYER

And his prayer was heard

Isaiah assured him

That he would have 15 more years

Of life-and he did

I have LIVED differently

SINCE making my death bed PROMISE

To God:

“To LIVE for my family-friends-and

ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE”

That is almost 40 years ago now-

And I CONTINUE to dedicate my life

To God

I continue to TRY and live

EACH MOMENT

In the GRACE of God

And dedicate my life to God

And to EACH OF YOU

“SURELY your goodness

And love

Will FOLLOW me

ALL the days

Of my life

And I will dwell

In the HOUSE of the Lord-

FOREVER” Psalm 23:6

“OUR DAYS

May come to 70 years

Or eighty

If our strength endures

Yet the best of them

Are but trouble and sorrow

For they quickly pass

And we fly away” Psalm 90:10

The point is:

OUR LIVES are finite

LIVE each moment in love

BUILD a lasting legacy

OF LOVE

Just like Jesus did

Only on a SMALLER SCALE

So what would you do

IF you found out

You had a year to live?

HOW would you LIVE?

I think I would continue

To KEEP living the way

That I have been living

KEEP LOVING GOD

And keep loving others

Saint Ignatius of Loyola, said,

“I would continue what I am

Doing at the moment”

Saint Charles Borromeo said,

“I would keep playing cards”

(For he was playing cards with the LORD)

WELL-whatever we would do-

Whatever we are doing-

It does not matter

As long as we are doing it

WITH THE LORD

OUR ordinary actions-though GRACE-

Are made HOLY

LIVE each moment-

Like it is your LAST-

And IN THE GRACE of God

And you never will

Have to worry

Robert P. Wallman

7-14-16

Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Father Martin Pable, O.F.M. Cap.

8-14-2019 and 10-5-6-2020