Letter – Sepetmber 2009

Our days are filled with good and bad, excitement and boredom, attention and neglect; like the pendulum of a clock, we swing back and forth. Inconsistency follows us everywhere, and when we would act in one way we find ourselves behaving in another. However, our inability to be perfect is not a flaw so much as it is the result of our humanity.  The quality of our lives may well be measured not by our perfection but our consistent efforts to become perfect. 

All too often, we measure our activities against our goals. However, the true measure of our growth is the process. How we live life is far more important than the result. The results in our lives can never be other than our accumulated activities. Many of us forget this when we fear we will not achieve our desired goals. However, life is a process and not a result. When we avoid the opportunity set before us in the moment, we surrender the reason for which we awoke in consciousness this day. For in the end it was not how perfect we became but how many times we tried. Each and every activity in our lives has its own integrity. It stands upon its own foundation and deserves our single minded attention. 

We can be overwhelmed by life but is the moment too large for us? Is a single activity too much for us? All our heavenly Father has asked of us is that we live in the moment as the divine creatures we are. If we can focus our attention upon our activities it is only in the moment we may find God. Our Lord is not far off. He is not above or below, he is not waiting for us in the future. Our God is not even over the next rise or around the corner, but He may be found fully in the very next moment.   

Let us so live our lives one moment at a time, meeting our Lord frequently along the way. Nothing should take precedence over any single activity in our lives for it is here our Lord has promised to meet us. If we can accept this we may then ask the question, Lord, of whom would you have me make a miracle this day? 

May God bless you with that singleness of focus, the joy of the moment, so that what you do will become more important than you desired result.