Good morning…
Beloved American poet Mary Oliver tiptoed over from earth to heaven one week ago today in Hobe Sound, Florida. Might three of her most famous quotes shape our prayer time this morning? Read each. Pause quiet. Wait inspired.
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridgegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”
Isn’t this exactly why Jesus breathed Holy Spirit power into our fragile lungs? I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows] (John 10:10b, AMP).
…Sue…
