Here we are,
halfway through the month of October. We
are also starting to wind down the Calling Sermon Series…just two more
Sundays left. To be sure, that doesn’t
mean that by the end of October you will have your calling completely figured
out and your five-year plan firm, ready to carry out.
Chances are you
will have guesses and glimpses of where God’s holy prompting is nudging you
right now. I want to offer one more
framework for thinking about calling. This
one is to look at your day. We often
say that how you live your hours/minutes of life is how you live your
life. Moreover, your day has an ebb and
flow. We all have moments when we are
more awake and alert and alive. I tend
to be a morning person. I love the hours
of 7 am to 11 am. That is when I tend to
do most of my writing and feel my most creative.
By 11 am, I am
starting to get a bit hungry, ready for a break. After lunch, I do get a small burst of
energy. By 2 pm, I am slowly down. By 4 or 4:30 pm, I am approaching Zombie
status. Sometimes, rather than engaging
our calling when we are at our most creative and awake, we tend to put it
off. I think this comes from our
childhood when I had to eat my Lima Beans before I could leave the table. I think, “Well, I can’t work on the sermon until
I do that task I don’t really like.”
This is not the best way to calendar or live your life. Rather, why not do what you love when your
mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health is at its peak? Why not volunteer when you have the most
energy and do the dishes later. Why not
go connect with a friend, then you can answer emails. Think about your day and how you can
make sure what is most life giving happens when you are most able to give that
moment your best energy.
That is how you
let your light shine brightest. Amen.
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