Readers of Living Wittily will have noticed my absence for the past week. One of the words I struggle to give priority to is prioritise! That means most times I try to do everything in my diary and on my conscience, as well as meeting expectations, my own and other people's. That same perfectionist impracticality fuels a sense of responsibility for fulfilling promises, meeting deadlines, standing by commitments and therefore often living life with more energy than wisdom. Or so it seems now and again.
This week I prioritised. Few things concentrate the mind more than the unlooked for advent of serious illness amongst those we care for most. So that's where energy, time, and all my focus has been. Thankfully we are now in a much better place and life goes on. But that very fact, "life goes on", is itself the reason for gratitude, humility and reflection.
Gratitude because life is a precious and unique blessing of the Living God. Our deepest emotions and experiences come to us through those in whose lives we live and move and have our being.
Humility because life is not ours to control, manage or dispose at will; we are human and have each our gift of years and days.
Reflection because when it comes to happiness, fulfilment, meaning, being a gift to the world and the world being gift to us, with life we realise comes responsibility, opportunity, choice, the miracle of existence and that most human of perspectives, hope.
This blog is about Living Wittily, serving God with mind and heart. Amongst the things this means is working out in the flux and frustration, the costs and consequences, the anxieties and aggravations, the loves and laughters, the gladness and the grief, the prayers and the promises, the give and the take of our daily lives, what it means to live with wise humility before the God who is sovereign in mercy and vulnerable in love.
The photo below was taken by Sheila while on a walk last year - the tranquil beauty and delicate colour of the grass - if God so clothes the grass.....how much more....
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