The Art of Making Moments!

Moment that burst with life are the gift of the Holy Spirit. Life's treasures are buried right under our noses. Discoveries are to be made in our every day life. Our problem is that we are less open to the unexpectedness of the everyday in our quest for the extraordinary and extreme. Life isn't somewhere else. Life is here--all around you and inside you, a succession of astonishments. True artists find meaning in the small wonders of life.

The art of Godly living is making every event a real do, making every moment count. Mark every moment good or bad. Landmark!

I know when I've had my best day and I know when I had my worst day.... landmark both of them. I know when I preached my best sermon and my worst.... believe me I have mark both of them. These are the memories of my life. I love making memories, "to mark" my life with those moments that give life purpose and meaning.

To make a memory moment is to "re-member". The word remember means both "to mark" and "to put together," as in putting together the members, or parts, of a body. In terms of our life, our soul, what do we mark and put together? Memories and stories. I we are not constantly recalling back to life meaningful memories and stories, our soul is being starved to death.

When I'm lonely or depressed a memory can turn my emotions around! When I am low on faith and hope, I make withdrawals from my memory bank that keep me going until my faith and hope crisis has ended.

Without "remembering" there can be no "renewal."

The "art of moment making" is the making of deposits in the first place, so that you can make withdrawals later.

So ... go make some deposits today!!!!

This Moment

You have been given 525,600 minutes a year. Are those minutes a never-ending chain of meaningless moments or is each minute you live intensely and rapturously alive?

Some live lurching from moment to moment! Others live hanging on the spur of the moment. Some one day at a time. But some live "in the moment."

To live in the moment is to recognize a moment is such a way that you become aware of the gift of God that you are experiencing.
In fact to live in the moment is to live "in the Spirit." When a moment is energized by the Spirit it becomes whole, holy and eternal.
To live in the moment is to capture and frame those moments in such a way that for eternity the caption reads "God was here."

Living in the moment is an "art." I long to be a great artist who lives great moments for others to enjoy! And through that beauty be inspired to create their own art of "living in the moment."

This has become for me the essence of being "Spirit filled."