Time Is of the Essence

  Watch your mouth. Your parents may have said that at key moments in your youth when you ventured to utter the unutterable. The old pastor in the early church said it and his admonition is enshrined in in an epistle by his name, the Book of James. Guard your tongue, bridle it, and be careful about the words that come forth from your mouth. They can do a lot of good; they can do a lot of harm. They are predictors of success and they are revealers of the heart. Watch your mouth and bridle your tongue. Think before you speak. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — James 3:1–12 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle. If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies. Or look at ships: though they are so large that it tak...

 

 

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  Down time Up time Think time How can they ALL HAPPEN AT ONCE?

  Consider the power of a moment. I am mediating on the power of a moment well done. Moments create momentum without being obvious or ostentatious. Momentous moments motion us over and envelop us like a cloud and then ... Pass over. Missing moments is a mournful sorrow. Magnificent moments multiply in some invisible space called influence, but ... Muddling moments may move us on to the next and the next and the next ... Move in and with the moment or  meddle with the muck ... Lots of luck with that ... Rather, just be in that moment and be what you are intended to be for you ... You were made for this moment and ... This moment was made for you. Who knows what it will bring to you and more ... What it will bring through you and by that, I mean ... YOU MAY NEVER KNOW .... But KNOW that NO moment well lived is ever lost and  Nothing, nothing, nothing is ever lost to God. This is your moment. Live it.