成人快手

Good morning. When on this day in 1961, President Kennedy announced his intention to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade; he began a process that would culminate in one of the greatest events in human history. He explained more fully his reasoning a few months after his announcement:聽
"We choose to go to the Moon," he said, "not because [it is] easy but because [it is] hard." His vision was realised in July 1969, although, tragically, he didn't live to see it himself.
Kennedy's emphasis on choice has always struck me: in that speech he repeated the phrase "we choose to go to the Moon", three times.
Our lives are full of choices: most of them mundane and inconsequential; however, every now and then we're faced with a choice that has real-life and far-reaching consequences for ourselves and for others.
Making these difficult choices and embracing change in our lives can be frightening, even when they're necessary and sometimes we might find ourselves tempted to take the easy way out.
But in the New Testament St Paul challenges us not to settle for mediocrity, in any of its forms. "Be ambitious for the higher gifts", he tells the Christians in Corinth; and for him the higher gifts are faith, hope and love: the greatest of which is love.
Choosing to be faithful, choosing to be hopeful and choosing to act with love are not easy: they require long-term sacrifice, commitment and sometimes they even require us to change the direction of our lives. But they are choices which are life affirming.
In contrast, mediocrity is often easier, but we would never have reached the Moon with that.
Almighty God, give us your strength, your courage and your inspiration whenever we need to make hard choices. Teach us to be ambitious for the higher gifts and may all we are and all we do be filled with faith, hope and love. Amen.