Reflection
What we do or fail to do now is shaping our world as well as ourselves. It is an awesome responsibility which we lose sight of in the routine of our lives. If we stop and measure our lives against this yardstick we cannot allow ourselves to lose heart. This is our time we will have no other. We are the only ones living in this period of earth’s history. The Creative Mystery is working through us. None of us is irrelevant. Each of us can tip the scales of the whole by the choices we make and the impact of our lives. We cannot afford to hold on to old biases and disproved ideas. We who are alive now are creating the future.
Prayer
May we have the vision and courage we need.
Action
Envision the future you want for the children in your family and for those who are yet to be born. What kind of world, what kind of planet earth do you want for them? What can you contribute toward making this possible? What do you have to do to heighten your own awareness?
Suggested Reading
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7
Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:58
To Christians, the future does have a name, and its name is Hope. Feeling hopeful does not mean to be optimistically naïve and ignore the tragedy humanity is facing. Hope is the virtue of a heart that doesn’t lock itself into darkness, that doesn’t dwell on the past, does not simply get by in the present, but is able to see a tomorrow.
Pope Francis
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Les Brown
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Denis Waitley
Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.
Ralph Marston
Pause and remember– Every moment is a choice. Every thought, word and deed is creating your future. Choose wisely and positively!
Jennifer Young
Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.
Robert Kiyosaki
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
Steve Jobs
America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Jane Addams