SOUL CrossTraining

This picture has so many memories attached to it. When they were little my mom was the first one in -- teaching all three of my kids to swim.   This day she battled to get in, so wanting this moment with us.  That's what we do... "hold on tight" to those we love!   My mother battled a degenerative brain disease for the past several years with great tenacity.  Although her particular disease was not clearly diagnosable it resided somewhere with Parkinson-ism and ALS.  As time passed we watched the lasting effects of her body and mind disconnecting.  Ultimately losing all physical capacity.  In and out of specialists office we began to learn a new language. These terms always seemed to fall short of describing the reality of what my mother was experiencing.  It's not that the healthcare system failed us. We watched the realities of a degenerative disease consume my mother. Last sum...

So much of what really matters has little value in our economy.   Jesus said it this way: Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.  Matthew 6:19-21 Those last words keep ringing in my ears... For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Where is my heart?  What things or people or possessions or ways of thinking do I treasure? What am I holding on to?  The author of Abundant Simplicity , Jan Johnson, challenges us to experiment with the prayer of self-awareness at the end of Chapter 1.