Celebrate the Temporary by Clyde Reid

Celebrate the temporary

Don't wait until tomorrow

Live today

Celebrate the simple things

Enjoy the butterfly

Embrace the snow

Run with the ocean

Delight in the trees

Or a single lonely flower

Go barefoot in the wet grass

Don't wait

Until all the problems are solved

Or all the bills are paid

You will wait forever

Eternity will come and go

And you

Will still be waiting

Live in the now

With all its problems and its agonies

With its joy

And its pain

Celebrate your pain

Your despair

Your anger

It means you're alive

Look closer

Breathe deeper

Stand taller

Stop grieving the past

There is joy and beauty

Today

It is temporary

Here now and gone

So celebrate it

While you can

Celebrate the temporary

Day after Easter

Easter services at The Heights seemed to go extremely well (here I must admit that my job keeps me looking at the logistics of the morning sometimes stronger than I'd like). My prayer is always that we "do" nothing in vain...that all we do glorifies God. I can't help but think that there were many people here yesterday that will be like the thief on the cross whose life may not show a lot of "effort" (fruit) toward glorifying God, but who by His grace believes and is saved. All Praise to God!

I know the reality of life is that there were two thieves that day on either side of Jesus...and the other mocked Jesus. Some here yesterday did nothing but mock the grace of God shown to us through the death of Christ on the cross. I pray for their souls and hope that God tarries long enough for them to see the nail scarred hands as Thomas did and hope one day they too will be resurrected from death into a relationship that brings glory to God!