looking for signs

Friday December 5^th, Mark 13: ²⁸"Take a lesson from the fig tree. From the moment you notice its buds form, the merest hint of green, you know summer's just around the corner. ²⁹And so it is with you. When you see all these things, you know he is at the door. ³⁰Don't take this lightly. I'm not just saying this for some future generation, but for this one, too--these things will happen.  Each of us will face an end time in our lives.  Each of us is called to live a life that is a life of being ready all the time.  For those who spend their time looking for signs of the end, they can find them in one way or another each and every day in the history of humanity, and will continue to find them as events unfold before us generation upon generation, it may be in God’s word, but it is not God’s way.  For those who live their lives bathed in the love and grace of the babe in Bethlehem, each day brings a new opportunity to live in, and show others, God’s grace.  Perhaps that is what the scriptures mean when they tell us to be ready.  Perhaps that is what the King was referring to in Matthew 25.  When you live in love, you live ready and most the time are not aware of it.  It is no longer a matter of what you do, it is a matter of whose you are.