Day 171 – Nehemiah 7-9, Psalm 139, I Corinthians 14
The Ven. Thomas Bruttell
Mea Culpa, Mea
Culpa! I have no excuses for this blog being late. I often say, oh my schedule
has overtaken me and I have run out of time --- But who made my schedule and set
its boundaries?
Does this happen to
you? Do you, like me, sometimes fill your life with the less important matters
and push those more important things backward? Might it be that we are too often
we fill our time with the ‘less important’ avoiding our relationship with God?
Might it be that our own egos setting schedules that diminish our time with God?
The Good news is here from the Psalmist’s mouth.
As the Psalmist
reminds us today that we have an “Inescapable
God.”
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from far away.
3 You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
O Lord, you know it completely.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for
me; it is so high that I cannot attain it.
7 Where can I go from your spirit?
Or where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there;
if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me fast.
11 If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light around me become night’,
12 even the darkness is not dark
to you; the night is as bright as the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
The Ven. Thomas Bruttell
Mea Culpa, Mea
Culpa! I have no excuses for this blog being late. I often say, oh my schedule
has overtaken me and I have run out of time --- But who made my schedule and set
its boundaries?
Does this happen to
you? Do you, like me, sometimes fill your life with the less important matters
and push those more important things backward? Might it be that we are too often
we fill our time with the ‘less important’ avoiding our relationship with God?
Might it be that our own egos setting schedules that diminish our time with God?
The Good news is here from the Psalmist’s mouth.
As the Psalmist
reminds us today that we have an “Inescapable
God.”
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from far away.
3 You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
O Lord, you know it completely.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for
me; it is so high that I cannot attain it.
7 Where can I go from your spirit?
Or where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there;
if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me fast.
11 If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light around me become night’,
12 even the darkness is not dark
to you; the night is as bright as the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
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