Live each day with awareness

by Joyce Rupp on May. 07, 2011

Eternal Dwelling Place,
I know all things are passing.
My final home is not here.
Yet I zoom mindlessly through my days
missing the passionate gift of life.

How differently I would enter each day
if I embraced the shortness of my life span.
The things I consider inconveniences
would have a different colored hue.
The work I feel driven to accomplish
would pale beside relationships I cherish.
The irritations and the angers would dissolve
as I inhaled the preciousness of life.

Joyful Journeyer,
I hear you call to me this day:
"Behold! Enjoy! Appreciate!
Welcome all who enter this new day.
Live wild with rapturous wonder.

Look with awe and smile with elation.
Forgive those who stand at a distance.
Thank those who have settled in your heart.
Be tender with the rough edges of yourself.
Taste each morsel of life with fullness."

May I live each day with heartiness,
keeping things n clear perspective,
Recognizing that this day before me might truly be my last.

For she is a breath of power of God …"
        --Wisdom 7:25

Prayer reflection

How would you live today if you knew it was your last?
Whom would you thank?
Whom would you forgive or ask forgiveness?
What would you say to those who are significant in your life?

[This reflection comes from Sr. Joyce Rupp's book Prayers to Sophia: Deepening our Relationship with Holy Wisdom.]

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Thankyou Joyce, A timely

Submitted by Meg McKenzie (not verified) on May. 07, 2011.

Thankyou Joyce,
A timely reminder. I love the book of Wisdom so Thankyou twice.

Thank you for this beautiful

Submitted by Sr. Margaret Meyer (not verified) on May. 07, 2011.

Thank you for this beautiful encouagement to live fully the Easter message.

A poem that should be said

Submitted by JOHNjburke (not verified) on May. 07, 2011.

A poem that should be said every day by every one.
John

Awareness--Awakening--Appreci

Submitted by Judy Cauley (not verified) on May. 07, 2011.

Awareness--Awakening--Appreciation is Wisdom's Way...heart to heart, center to center! Thank you again and always for your inspiration and invitation!

love--Judy

JOYCE, your words reverberate

Submitted by Mary Schmit (not verified) on May. 08, 2011.

JOYCE,
your words reverberate with me!! May God Bless you on Mother's Day!

joyce,your writings are

Submitted by jacinta (not verified) on Jul. 03, 2011.

joyce,your writings are motivating,challenging above all it's real.I have really benefitted alot from your books especially the one on PRAYER.Please keep it up,May our good Lord continue to enrich you with his wisdom and grace. God bless.

This makes everything so

Submitted by Rocky (not verified) on Sep. 08, 2011.

This makes everything so cmopetlley painless.

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