a benediction

Here at last we come to the end of this journey, and yet like all endings, this is really just a beginning. A journey is good for itself and doubly good because at the end of it you find yourself at home again. My life has been richer the last month because I carved out time to be intentional about enjoying my life. 

 My aim has not been to find a silver lining or attempt to find the good in every situation. Rather my aim has been to consciously choose to savor every situation whether it is good or bad. My desire has been to listen to my life and enjoy my life, holding things with open hands. My longing in all of this has been to be still in my life and truly live.

I have done this and continue to do this imperfectly, but the point is not that I savor my life perfectly, but that I perfectly savor my life. I am a long way from having how we should live figured out, but I know that it should be abundant. 

So here on the eve of All Saints Day, my benediction for you is that you may truly and abundantly live as the saints who have gone on before you have, that as the joys and sorrows of abundant life come you may hold and savor each in turn, and that as you truly live, this abundant life may overflow and embrace those around you. 

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