Psalm 36:8-10

“They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights. For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.” vss. 8-9

Writing about twenty-five hundred years ago the psalmist was convinced that God was the source of all goodness, life, and light. And with all the pondering, parsing, and theologizing that has gone on since, we really can’t do any better. Oh, we’ve changed names for God and come up with new ways of describing the “Great I Am.” For some, “Ground of All Being” is a particular favorite, or maybe “The Divine Mystery.” It gives us a sense of pride to come up with names that describe nothing particularly well. But when we’re done playing around with the name of God, we’re in the same place as the psalmist. In God is found light and life and every manner of goodness, and outside of God there is nothing! And to top it all off, all things are bound together by God’s steadfast love and mercy. And since that is how things are, there’s not much left for us to do than to daily bow our hearts before God in thanksgiving and praise, and then savor every blessed moment that has been given us to enjoy in the course of our lives. Certainly our time is limited within this creation, just a blink in the eye of the Eternal, but that’s all the more reason for us to rejoice and be glad in it.

Thought for the Day: Am I savoring life or wasting time?