A friend has suggested that we all make a "bucket list" of those things that will help us each become a better person.
According to me, we'd best remember that we are the best person we can be right this very minute...this best-that-I-can-be person is what God has to work with every second of our breathing life. Since he already has the finished product at hand, what we are in this minute is the unfinished perfect product.
Ideally, our job would be to practice, or to live, daily, hourly, every second by the spiritual principles handed down to us. What we would show forth then would be God's sculpting up to the minute.
It is an imperfect world, however, so my bucket list would be: (1) to remember the ideal and (2) to work with my current defect. My "current defect" is almost without fail my personalizing the daily bumps of life.
Interestingly, personalizing problems boils down to I take myself too seriously. Which is a hoot, since that was the first defect of character that I ever honestly recognized, admitted to, accepted and said (right out loud), "Well, God's got his work cut out for him because I cannot change that."
Interestingly, personalizing problems boils down to I take myself too seriously. Which is a hoot, since that was the first defect of character that I ever honestly recognized, admitted to, accepted and said (right out loud), "Well, God's got his work cut out for him because I cannot change that."
Talk about the good news and the bad news both together. I mean, such a piddling defect of character and still hanging in there.
There it is. Proof that God is patient, kind and loving...and has a great sense of humor.
Thank you.
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