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To put ones time in God’s hands
My time: multifaceted it is! A past full of nice memories, but also with dark shadows.
A future full of visions but also with pressing anxieties. A presence elusive and yet demanding,
an adventure each moment! My time! At the end of the week I let my time pass by my inner
eye. I have used her up and yet she is in God’s
hands. Therefore I want to return my time into His hands. Because He to whom the Sunday
belongs is the center of all time and all life. Everything circles around him. Everything
comes from Him and goes to Him. The whole circle of life!
My time I experience in the boundaries of laws and orders in which I arrange my life.
Of this Monday wants to remind me. But my time also demands daily my trust, yes, my
basic sense of trust in God’s goodness. Therefore I want to live the faith that neither
in heights nor in depths unclasps itself from God. That is the message of Tuesdays.
My time I want to put in God’s hands in my prayers. For this the seven petitions of
the Lord’s Prayer give us direction. Assembling of life around the center, the heart in which
God has put up His tent. The topic for Wednesdays! And Thursdays? My time as an experience of
a deep transformation which took its beginning with the baptism. Rebirth, new Being out of
God’s Spirit, revival of life! On Fridays we celebrate with Holy Communion
the feast of God’s self-sacrificing love. All that I am I have received through Him!
But in particular he has bestowed on me his forgiveness. His cross becomes the sign for
His love even to the death! And finally Saturday the last pillar of faith, the highest level
in our earthly lives: That someone learns to say ‘Yes’ to himself through God! Because
God’s love is so big that any shadow can be before him.
With Sunday my time flows back into His eternity: “I commit my spirit into your hands. You
are the eternal love from which I live; you are the eternal truth which holds me ; you
are the eternal Spirit which fills me. To you be glory and honor now and forever, Amen!”