Give a smile!
“Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.”
– St. Gregory Naziansen
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PWS - Bud
What’s your default?
What goes through your mind, the moment someone says something? Maybe it doesn’t go through your mind. Maybe it just comes tumbling out.
Whether you’ve got a working filter or not isn’t the point. The point is that automatic response itself.
Even if you’ve learned to say it in your head, your unprompted reaction, your default says a lot about you. Take a step back and look at your automatic responses today. Be honest with yourself about what you’re seeing.
If your first words are a cutting remark, you need to check your default.
If your first thought is a damning comparison, you need to check your default.
If your first response is negative, you need to check your default.
Look at where that stuff is coming from. If those are your defaults, it won’t be pretty. Because something has gotten between you and God.
Whatever it is, you need to get rid of it.
It doesn’t have to be your default. It was never meant to be that way.
You were created to have a different default. Which is?
Love. It’s what Jesus is talking about in the Gospels, when He talks about remaining in His love.
Remaining in His love is more than passive acceptance. It’s an intentional decision to stay focused on the love of Jesus. A conscious choice to ground your life in His love. Moment by moment.
If you do, if you let it, God’s powerful, holy love will change you.
His love will become your second nature, your default.
And you will change the world.
The difference between your conscious and your will.
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“And let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When they speak of being ‘in Christ,’ or of Christ being ‘in them,’ this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts - that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body. And perhaps that explains one or two things. It explains why this new life is spread not only by purely mental acts like belief, but by bodily acts like baptism and Holy Communion.”
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity, pages 63-64)
