Yet another list I’ve made after completing three little things yesterday. This list is different, a note to self about enduring, about this time as a time for living.

Eternally Valuable Days

• Mend fences and repair barbed wire barriers and hurts in relationships.
• Make them stronger by your willingness to work harder, to dig down deep to prevent future toppling.
• Commit to loving for the long haul, a firm decision.
• Laugh, it is allowable.
• Sleep without guilt over long sleeping.
• Be mindful in your use of time, not mindless.
• Look up to the wide sky and see the vast possibilities and the actual purpose of you. Open yourself up to it.
• Look at the birds. Consider the lilies. Fixate upon the ebb and flow of water, the power of the ocean. Go to these places.
• Endure the delay that comes with the decision to do the big thing that requires simply moving forward.
• Believe in Jesus. Believe Jesus, not just the idea of Him. Believe.

“Do all things without grumbling or disputing,”
‭‭Philippians‬ ‭2:14‬ ‭ESV‬‬

A month from today, I turn 60. The truth of that day is accompanied by the truth of that number. Age and learning, age and realizations of time, times remembered and the brevity of time allotted.

I’m on the fence really, a contradiction as usual. On the cusp of beginnings and still surprised by bright ideas.

Still able, still trusting and still willing.

So very willing to discover fully God’s idea of me ordered long long ago that I’ve only see faint peeking in the open door of!

Hopeful, set on hope not fear because of this disgruntled world.

Eternally valuable, I’ll use as my days’ choices.

“A repining life is a lingering death.” Benjamin Whichcote, “Joy and Strength” devotional