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Overcoming Ourselves is the Greatest Gift

“Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.” - Francis of Assisi

The day we stop worrying about what other people are doing and not, the day we focus on ourselves, our thinking, our habits, our behaviors, our actions and reactions- is the first day of our liberation. It’s the first day of our transformation.

We can’t control what anyone else does. If we waiting on other people to change, if we are waiting for other people to do what we believe is the right thing, we just may be waiting forever.

Body, mind, and spirit, we ask God to grow us in every aspect of our lives. We ask for a pure heart so that our motivations and intentions are good. We ask God to change our mindset so that our thinking is sound. We ask God to help us develop the discipline and consistency to be good stewards of our physical bodies.

When we are fully aligned, mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually with our highest possibilities and purposes for this time and place, we will find that is greatest blessing we could ever experience.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Forget Work Life Balance

In today’s bonus reflection, I want to challenge the whole notion of work life balance.

The whole notion presupposes that there is a bucket of time called work, and some other bucket of time called life. The reality is that we only have one life.

For those of us who work full time outside the home, we spend more waking hours with our coworkers and customers than we do our outside of work friends and family.

We spend a great deal of our time, effort, creativity and energy in work. Our work done both inside and outside the home is where make some of our most substantial contributions to the world.

Work is not separate from our lives. Work is a major part of our adult lives. It’s almost impossible to have a fulfilling life without either loving the work it self, or loving what your work allows you to accomplish and contribute.

Again , work is not separate from our lives. It’s a major part of our lives. A fulfilled life requires us to give it every thing we have. The writer of Ecclesiastes reminds us that this includes our work.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Count Your Own Blessings- Not Someone Else’s

“So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai…” from Ester 7:10

For those not familiar with the story, Haman had a fabulous life. He was the top assistant to the King of Persia. Persia at the time was the most magnificent empire on earth.

Haman had the power and privilege of his position. He has access to the land’s highest power in his proximity to the king. He had wealth and access to every luxury known to the world.

But he still wasn’t satisfied. He wanted respect and glory. He wanted people to know his name. When he was on the verge getting it, all the glory went to Mordecai who foiled a plot to assonate the king.

Haman never forgave Mordecai for stealing his shine. His jealousy and resentment was so great that he formulated a plan not only to kill Mordecai but all his people.

Haman didn’t know the queen was one of those people. He lost his life. His family lost everything. His jealousy and resentment took everything from him.

If he had counted his own blessings instead of counting Mordecai’s he would’ve have kept them.

We need to count our own blessings.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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