Unless you were transported to another universe or you dwell in a cave, you had to have at least read or heard the words “Super Bowl 49” during the past two weeks.
Most specifically, a lot of people watched the 2015 Super Bowl in what is arguably considered America’s penultimate sporting event.
I have noticed the billboard on several occasions during my travels over the past few months between my home and Harrisburg, seventy five miles to the south of us.
The billboards are part of an advertising campaign for a regional health insurance company.
Have you ever been to a concert or symphony where the musical experience left you speechless and overflowing with emotions, totally overwhelming you?
I’ve had this experience a few times in my life.
God’s treasure…is like an infinite ocean…yet a little wave of feeling, passing with the moment, contents us…when He finds a soul permeated with a living faith, He pours into it His graces and His favours plenteously…into the soul they flow like a torrent.” – Conversations and Letters of Brother Lawrence (June 1, 1682)
Photo Courtesy of Bruce R. Cross
We all love to take pictures of our children.
Pictures are snapshots in time of what our children looked like at a certain age or an image marking a significant event like a birth, the day they took their first steps, hitting their first homerun, a graduation, or their wedding day.
Pictures are static or in other words, moments frozen in time.
The Christmas lights have been removed from outside our homes (or are frozen to the ground!), the ornaments have been carefully packed away, other decorations will live to see the light of day in about eleven months, and the tree minus many needles has been hauled away.
I cannot speak for you, but there are many things wrapped in the package called everyday life which I take for granted.
Christmas is no ordinary day.
It is an outlier to the other 364 days on the calendar, far to the extreme right of center.
It is a day in which we take time to pause and reflect or at least we should.
Last weekend we experienced a first.
On Saturday we did a few things around the house, went to the mall, and decided to take in a movie for a change of pace.
Exodus: God and Kings had opened the night before and it sparked an interest in me to see it.
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing – your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.” – Viktor E. Frankl, Nazi death camp survivor
Photo Courtesy of Brendan Cross