'Turning down' life!
Soul Snack 9/150 ... Life is loud!
There are thrilling stressors in life. They command my attention and shout out to me. They goad my will, grab my biceps and constrain me.
These desirable stressors yield not quality fruit, they harness my time and pulpit raucously across my soul - 'listen to me, I am claiming your attention yet again.'
Their promises are hollow and they deliver even less.
Their empty voice almost irresistible as it howls at my humanity and claims my spirit
Relentlessly they assail me on the hilltops, and ensure that they cannot be ignored.
They feed on the desires and joys from my past which they multiply in my present. They beckon 'look to an indulgent future and ignore the master's messianic word from the Mountainside'.
But His words are louder! His words are higher! His words are truer! His words are full, and they have already lasted forever.
Hmm ... think I'll turn the volume down on my past life!