It seems to me that we all make life too darn complicated. In many ways we get lost in the weeds. And yet, the prescription for a happy life is really very simple. The Baltimore Catechism set it down in question #6:
6. Q. Why did God make you?
A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in heaven.
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| My quiet morning prayer place. |
I'm generally an early riser. This morning I woke up a little after five. Sometimes I say my morning prayers in bed and hope I fall back to sleep, but generally I can tell if that is going to happen. It didn't, so I rose about 5:30 and gazed out the window overlooking the pool. Oops! The kids left the lights on in the pool house yesterday. Why they turned them on in broad daylight mystified me, but I just sighed, put on a wrap, and went out to turn them off. I'm my mom's daughter and she was thrifty and vigilant about turning off lights not being used! But I won't scold, just remind them next visit to turn off the lights.
Yesterday I posted a Facebook meme with a quote from a saint. Today, I read a meme that means well, but is skewed and wrong. I'm not addressing, of course, the protection of innocent life. We may never murder an innocent baby. But the rest of the meme is head-shakingly wrong.
