Reflection
It’s what you pay attention to in life that determines both your commitments and your inner happiness. Time is its indicator. One of the most important questions of life is surely, Where do I spend my time and what am I doing there? The second is, What calls me back to where I’m meant to be?
Monastic bells can draw your attention again and again to what is really of great concern: the call of God in you to remember the suffering, to comfort the grieving, to feed the underfed. To continue the work of God’s love for all the earth. If those are the bells of life that waken our hearts, then, perhaps, we will finally become a country again, a people again, and reflect more signs of humanity than of nationalities and clans and colors.
Joan Chittister, OSB
Prayer
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:21
Action
Where do you spend your time and why? What calls you Back to where you should be?
Suggested Reading
No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.
Matthew 6;24
He (Jesus) establishes the criterion: whether to live for ourselves or to live for God and for others; to be served or to serve; to obey one’s own ego or to obey God.
Pope Francis
Action expresses priorities.
Mahatma Gandhi
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa
Show me where you spend your time, money and energy and I’ll tell you what you worship.
John Wimber
If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.
Ryan Blair
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
C.G. Jung
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
Paulo Coelho