what keeps us up

when you consider the promise that you are not promised tomorrow. it makes you reevaluate your life and your relationships in such dramatic ways. i know this is a tired truism - but more than ever the thought of it keeps me up at night.

i'm finding new ways, deeper ways to surrender the future, while attempting to understand what today is supposed to hold... but this issue gets compounded when you have clarity of vision for the future and the inability to directly live in response.

anne lamott always says there are just 2 simple prayers that ought to be prayed. "thank you and help me." - help us understand what it is to live more and more outside of fear / more and more outside of the worry of tomorrow / trust that the things that need to be resolved today will be put on our hearts - and that if death comes to your door tonight - what is unresolved will be put to rights.

- one teaching in a series that has been a godsend from imago dei in portland.
the hope of our faith