less busy

Wednesday November 6^th, Luke 6:17-21 Everyone was trying to touch him—so much energy surging from him, so many people healed! Then he spoke: You're blessed when you've lost it all. God's kingdom is there for the finding. You're blessed when you're ravenously hungry. Then you're ready for the Messianic meal.  Our lives become filled with many good things, often it seems to be too many good things.  We can see this problem in others, but rarely in ourselves.  In talking to those listening to him on the hillside by the Sea of Galilee, Jesus touched the longing in their souls for something more than just day to day survival.  The something more he gave them was the ability to begin to see themselves for who they were, the children of God.  They were no longer the down and out, the hungry and tired, the rich and the poor, they were simply the blessed.  We find ourselves sitting, not on a hillside but in parking lot after parking lot waiting for the kids to be finished with this practice or that, sometimes waiting for the store to open and the sale to begin so we can try to fill the empty hole in our souls with the business and the things of this world.  What we are often left with is a bigger hole in our souls and our bank accounts along with a garage full of stuff, and kids who are no more fulfilled than they were before.  God calls us to exchange that hole for the wholeness that comes with balancing our busy lives with a bit less busy and a bit more God.  We and the children among us are called to live our lives knowing we are blessed, seeing ourselves and others as the children of God and hearing the message of God’s love for us in our hearts and minds always.