成人快手

Good morning. Recently I was reading an article about why people go running. One writer described that he sometimes worried that he only ran to have run. He was concerned that banking the benefits of running, the fitness and the mental uplift, were more important to him than the moment of running itself. But then he would experience a run which in the moment was magical: the imprint on the senses of his surroundings and the physical effort involved would combine to give him pure pleasure. I suspect most runners would identify with both feelings: a sense of satisfaction based on what having run offers in the long term; and moments of exhilaration in the running itself, fleeting but deeply memorable. When a runner is injured and is unable to run, as I am just now, both are missed and mourned.

We can鈥檛 escape the fact that some events in the past inevitably affect the present whether negatively or positively. But we may have a choice about what we choose to dwell on. When we allow ourselves to stop and think, where do we choose to abide, to use the word in its peculiarly biblical sense of resting in, staying with, inhabiting deeply? It鈥檚 a word and an idea which seems to have been particularly important for the writer of John鈥檚 Gospel: it鈥檚 the way John鈥檚 Jesus imagines the future relationship between his disciples and his word- one of mutual abiding. Abiding in the moment rather than the past opens up the possibility of epiphany, revelations of lasting significance for the present and for the future.

Living God, in every moment of this day, abide with us, as we abide with attention to all the day brings. Amen.