Transparent Christian Magazine

I know people (most of us, I will hazard to presume) who fight the same dragon day after day after day. Maybe it’s the struggle with the work we’ve chosen, a battle with the bottle or pills, that same argument with the same person, or even something so seemingly small as those same ten pounds we’ve been losing and losing and losing for the last 20 years.

In short, it seems to me that too too many of us waste our days struggling with “divided hearts,” perpetually in conflict between what we want and … well, what we want. Here’s the kicker: When we do that, though we live in a world of incredible beauty and wonder, we often flat-out miss it because we fail to look up, to look out, to look around at the vast wealth and abundance that surrounds us.

Here’s the point: Look up … look out … look around. No need to struggle or even try. Open your heart — an undivided heart — to the incredible blessings the Good Lord has placed before you this day. And as my sainted Italian grandmother would say: Enjoy! — jri

“Teach me your way, O Lord,
and I will walk in your truth;
give me an undivided heart,
that I may fear your name.”
– King David
Psalm 86:11

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