Watch this four minute video. It’s a great reminder that will make this Christmas season even more meaningful and prepare us to live more effectively in 2016! I think you’ll be encouraged.
The Imaginative Life
Eeyore is Dead: a new year’s resolution
Eeyore’s “woe is me” attitude is cute only on television. In real life, he’s hard to live with. In real life, his morose brooding is more contagious than Influenza and a hundred times more dangerous.
Don’t be a moper.
Don’t be a fake, either.
Follow God into your dark days and listen for what he has to say to you. Then, start singing that message to the world and let your face shine in the darkness…not with a fake “grin and bear it” attitude, but with the joy of The Lord which is your strength.
This resolution, like all others that are hard, will require the Holy Spirit: I hereby resolve to live authentically, purposefully, and humbly…joyful.
The Eeyore in me is dead. Anyone want to join me?
One Sentence Inspiration
Here’s a one sentence paradox consistent with the joy of Christmas. Happy Christmas, friends.
“We are cradled close in your hands-and lavishly flung forth.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
One Sentence Inspiration
“We will sense you [God] like a fragrance from a nearby garden and watch you move through our days like a shaft of sunlight in a sickroom.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
One Sentence Inspiration
“Whom should I turn to, if not the one whose darkness is darker than night, the only one who keeps vigil with no candle, and is not afraid-the deep one, whose being I trust, for it breaks through the earth into trees, and rises, when I bow my head, faint as a fragrance from the soil.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
One Sentence Inspiration
“You cherish those who grip you for survival.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
One Sentence Inspiration
“To believe is to believe you have been torn from the abyss, yet stand waveringly on its rim.”
-Christian Wiman, “One Time”
One Sentence Inspiration
“It might have been otherwise.”
-Jane Kenyon, “Otherwise”