Monday’s thoughts
Sermon for Sunday, September 9th
“Take Your Life and Live It”
Konrad Lorenz in his book, The Waning of Humaneness gives us an important perspective. He writes: “The increasing intolerance of the unpleasurable on the part of civilized humans transforms the naturally inevitable highs and lows of our normal lifes into an artificially flattened expanse of monotonous gray, without any of the contrasts of lights and shadows. In short, this produces boredom and in so doing becomes the cause for so many humans needing to be coninually entertained.”
What does it take to wake us up and to enable us to live every moment?
Thornton Wilder in his play “Our Town” gives us much to think about:
“Yes, now you know. Now you know! That’s what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down tranpling on the feelings of those…of those about you. To spend and waste time as though youhad a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know–that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.”
It seems to me there is something better than this. It seems to me the Christianity offers a life that is lived fully and completely in which every moment is taken as sacred.
This sermon will push the issue of life and how we live it, and it will bring to the issue the message and truth of the Gospel.
What do we do to live a full life?
What calls us to wake up in the morning with joy and expectation?
If you have thoughts on this write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the ‘comments’box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
