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The Sun

It's a Sunday! a beautiful, sunny Sunday! yay! the sun's shining! Its time to get up and go to church!
on my way to church, i can't help but muse and wonder, its a Sunday, the sun's shining. its a beautiful Sunday, i'm off to church .... but wait, half the people around me are off to explore! its a Sunday, the sun's shining its a beautiful Sunday, they are off to see the mountainside! huh? my sentiments exactly! i want to put on my judgment hat get on my judgement seat and declare them ... 'guilty'! for not going to church to worship God on a beautiful day like this! what more could make you aware of the existence of a Creator?
Then I think to myself, I'm so quick to judge, but how many times have I adopted the same attitude? seeking the creation instead of the Creator? worshiping the creation instead of the Creator; longing for, aweing at the creation instead of the creator... then it hits me... I'm quick to judge because I recognize what it is... I see it in myself... I see it in my life... I know the road, it's a well travelled path of mine... 'self'. That's where it leads to... self gratification, thats what its all about. But wait, I thought I was meant to be dead to self? 'work in progress!' does that mean I can get away with stuff? No, it just means if i fall, I can dust myself up and try harder next time. in the words of the famous A.W, it means 'I haven't arrived, but I've left!'
So back to my judgment, its a Sunday, the sun's shining, its a beautiful sunny Sunday, and before i arrive at Church, I learn my lesson number one for the week: always seek the Creator, not the creation... that way your life counts for something!
And while i muse on the sunniness of the Sunday, I develop the outline of my new musing ...  sun dwellers!

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