There is an underpinning value accorded to life.
When all detail, distractions, and deliberations are stripped away what we are left with is opportunity. The golden state of living and breathing commends most of all that we are playing our humble part in God's grand creative plan.
By pure reality there is nothing more basic than the potential to act. We have choice, and therefore control, over what we do.
Making Our Contribution
Making a offering means adding value at every step; it takes pleasure in doing so.
What a belief it is that we, of our singular selves, one whole life that is our own, can sow back into life in the world - and, thus, life eternal!
That chance abounds, today, is a masterpiece belief of everyday living proportion only presented, here, at the cusp of time.
It stands there to be captive for us and it blesses the ingenuity of effort - either ours or others'.
And we applaud it in others' lives, also - that they took, and won, such divine beneficence; as we reject, at hand, the climbing claims of envy seeking to stamp all chance as Its Own! And envy has no claim on us when we refuse to enter into comparison over who is manufacture what contribution. Any good offering is applauded.
Big Or Small - It Does Not Matter
This is a bone-crunching, liberating truth if ever there was one. There is no great offering than the one we make; the one we are called to offer at the altar of our human existence before God.
As soon as we understand this powerful axiom - that size of offering doesn't matter - we are freed to gleefully put forth anyone we can; anyone we are resourced to give; however it comes; for every instinctively loving motive.
Upon even the smallest, most unacknowledged act we are blessed if only we have taken the opportunity.
Managing Envy
It's a truth that all of us must grapple with: comparisons are made with others over the size, type, ingenuity, reception, and weight, of contribution.
Managing envy is, of itself, an opportunity.
Our best step is, on the front foot, to pursue evidence of others' activity and commend it without belief for what is lacking within us. Do this, looking how it blesses others, and we will do it more.
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The grandest inherent foresight for life is the identification of chance and the opportunism of manufacture a contribution. That is humility, diligence, empathy, courage, and prudence, all wrapped in one - to naturally contribute. Size does not matter.
© 2012 S. J. Wickham.
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