While in the oil and gas business, I often was called upon
to track down leaks. Leaks pollute. Leaks waste money. Leaks generally make a
mess. Very often, the leak was produced by someone over zealously trying to
thread two pieces together without lining them up. Force was used to overcome accuracy.
The result was a cross-thread, which
produces a mess.
How often do we force things that are not ready only to
produce a mess? We force growing up. We force purchases. We force our will on
others. We force closure on wounds physical and emotional.
And we make messes.
Jesus spoke of the kairos, the “right” time, the fullness of
time, the pregnant moment, the ripe time. People who live eternally, live with
a blissful awareness of God’s activity outside and within the pressing demands
of our “time’s running out” world.
He lives. Maybe that’s why.
Be still today and try to move to the rhythm of God’s time.
Shun forced deadlines. Live.
In the fullness of
time,
put all things in
subjection under your Christ, and bring us to
that heavenly
country where, with all your
saints, we may
enter the everlasting heritage of your sons and
daughters; through
Jesus Christ our Lord, the firstborn of all
creation, the head
of the Church, and the author of our
salvation.
The Book of Common
Prayer, Eucharistic Prayer B
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