Write On

Just for today.

Before today, I had never seen it before. After today, I will never see it again. During today, however familiar an activity may appear, it will be the first time that I’ve ever done it today. Yet the cycle does not change – evening and morning go on as they always have.

My Dad’s sense of equanimity is remarkable to me because it essentially told me that the bad would not weigh him down and the great would not inflate him. He would keep right on keeping on. He experienced the faithfulness of God and He endeavoured to be faithful to God.

The impact that has on me now, is that I am grateful for this new day. I don’t want to take it for granted. I don’t want to waste it. I want to be present in it to contribute to the world what I’m here to contribute. Nothing more, as if I get brownie points for overstretching myself and nothing less because I don’t want to undersell myself and possibly miss out on blessing someone else.

It would be easy to say that I don’t have much, but when I deep it, my relationship with Jesus means I have a lot. One of the things that I have in Him is this privilege to type words on a screen and eventually publish them online for others to read it in the hope not just that they will like it, but will be blessed by it.

I believe writing is a gift that I’ve been given and I want to make the most of it today for the glory of the Giver and an expression of thanks to Him. I am familiar with wasting things, especially time. It sickens me to see how that’s happened in time past, but I endeavour not to get hung up on that – as that would also be a waste of time. What I want to do is learn and be diligent not to waste time going ahead.

I get to practice that today. One way I get to practice that is to invest the time into praying, studying, meditating and preparing to put words on a screen. It is a privilege. I look to make the most of it. The idea is, however, and wherever I can, to make the most of what God has given me and encourage others to do the same. All in the hope that one day when I finish on that day, the next thing I hear is a commendation from the heavenly Father for being faithful with these privileges that He gives to me.

Thank you for reading however much you have on this blog, whether this is your first entry or you’ve read a number of others. However that word is communicated, whether typed or spoken, the desire is to keep on keeping on. In good time and bad.

With the encouragement of the Father and the Son. With the support of the family with which I am blessed, my prayer is to write on.

Just for today.

For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden