This week's quote is by Richard Cecil:

"We are urgent about the body;
He is about the soul.
We call for present comforts;
He considers our everlasting rest.
and therefore when He sends
not the very things we ask,
He hears us by sending
greater than we can ask or think."


The first time I read this quote I thought, this one won't be easy. Then I read it again, and realized, that's it! We mortal human beings use this container housing our souls as if it would last forever, when we already know the mortality rate in our country is only about seventy some odd years.

God made us human. He undestands that's what we are, and from the first skectch on His drawing board, He took care of anything and everything we could need. We don't have to worry about a thing.

The Mind above all mind and intelligence through out the universe, took care of every detail. It's all mapped out in a book He left for us. But sometimes we pay less attention to it than the manual that comes with our car, and that is the difference. We depend on our wheels every day, and if itisn't working, we're in a hurry for it to be fixed. Oh that we kept our faith in such good repair.

This week's quote says we're urgent about our body. Someone coming to our planet would be mystified by our hurry up drive through fast food, and just about anything else, world.
We're urgent in other ways too. I feel a little sad when I see a newborn baby wearing jeans and other clothes older children wear. Grade School children learn peer pressure. Before they're old enough for middle school, a push is on for wearing makeup, and too short skirts. While growing up is sure to happen, what's the reason for the rush? I know, I know, "everybody does it".

One thing in our society seems to herald another. It's like not much can wait til its appointed time. I think there's a reason patience is called a virtue. Considering how little delayed gratification there is, one wonders what many have to look forward to.

Our Savior knows a lot about us, our cares, and conquests, or defeats. While we spend a big part of our lifetime taking care of wants and pleasures, and these, God's ultimate goal is to ensure the condition, and final destination of our soul. While we journey in that direction, taking care of the one bod we have, He understands when we're hungry or tired. He takes us in from the cold and the storm.

He doesn't expect us to walk on water as He did, but sometimes we need to get out of our little boats, and help someone who can't swim. As long as we're here in this world, we will war with ourselves about needs, but we need to remember who made us, and spend less time worrying.

It's not like we have to enter a monastery, and distance ourselves from the world. God made the world just right, a good place to be. But we've messed it up quite a bit. Living a Holy life requires development higher than Sigmund Freud's Id. Overly pleasing our whimsical wants doesn't do much for our souls.

Have you noticed how God answers prayer? Remember when your urgent plea (there's that word again) seemed to not be heard. If only He'd fix things like we hoped, I would sometimes think, until a better solution, by chance it seemed, made its way to me. But my God doesn't roll dice when planning my destiny. I am sure with the help of an angel or two, He's sent miracles to me.