A thought for today
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 Mark 8:34-9:1. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?
"Too late have I loved Thee,"
wrote Saint Augustine in the fifth century. He was lamenting the fact
that he had ordered his life's priorities mistakenly for too long. It
is tempting, and so very easy, to believe that things that have no life
will give us life. We are bombarded with messages that equate a
fulfilled life with possessions, power, prestige, beauty, and wealth.
In the end, none of these last and, even more tragically, the unbridled
pursuit of them slowly kills. All too often it takes personal
misfortune, or at least a near miss, to cause us to realign our
priorities.
"Our hearts are restless until
they rest in Thee," continued Augustine. Jesus said he came that we
might have life and have it abundantly. He lived a life of sacrificial
love for all. Such a life will not impress others on the freeway or in
the board room. It will probably not turn heads on the street.
On the
other hand, it will sustain us eternally and give us true joy and
fulfillment. The choice is always ours.
Our feet tread the dust, but
our heart must expand with all the love of heaven, to love all that God
loves, to love God in all, to love with the love which God himself
gives, and whereby he makes us one with himself.
-Richard Meux Benson from August 4 Forward Movement Day by Day
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