JanBeek

The prompt for today asked me to identify my favorite pastime…
I am doing it: writing.
Especially writing on my blog, but also
writing text or e-mail messages to family and friends
and sending greeting cards for all kinds of occasions
ie: Birthdays, Anniversaries, Get Well, Thinking of you…

Daily writing prompt

What is your favorite hobby or pastime?

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Writing poetry is another favorite activity.
If you’ve read my blog for awhile, you know
I like to take sermon notes in church on Sundays.
Sometimes they rhyme… but more often lately
they are free verse. It’s my way of capturing
the main message as I hear and understand it.

Rev. Mary Grace Reynolds
used Matthew Chapter 5:13-16
as her springboard for today’s message.
Here’s what the sermon said to me today:

Be Salt and Light

Salt preserves.
As Christians,
We, too, must preserve
What is right in the world.

We must become
Salt and Light.
Salt that exists
For a specific purpose.

Light that shines
As a witness to Jesus.
Salt that creates
A thirst for what is Good.

Fight for each human’s
Right to live in
The light of Torchbearers –
Lighting the way for others.

Blessed are the merciful.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
Think first to help someone else.
Be a light who blesses others.

Don’t lose your saltiness.
Don’t cover your light.
Create pathways to
Wholeness in this world.

Amen?
Amen!

Are you Salt for a specific purpose?
Does that influence your choice of
Favorite Pastime?
Does your purpose shed
Light on your pathway?
Is it peaceful?

What is your favorite pastime?
Don’t tell me you don’t have one!

Hah!
Love,
JanBeek