The other afternoon, in anticipation of spring, which is coming on fast this year, I was in the backyard, pruning the excessive growth and deadwood from some trees and bushes. Things needed to get done. The Mexican Plum was on the verge of blooming, and it's always the most eager to get started after winter.
A few hours spent cutting and snipping produced a couple sizable piles of branches that next needed to be burned, so I dragged them over to the burn area in the yard and proceeded to light the fire.
As I was tossing the results of my labor into the flames, I noticed a few clusters of plum blossoms that had already opened, and some bees buzzing around them. My heart sank a little at the thought of destroying that beauty and denying those hungry insects their nectar, so I saved those limbs from the fire and set them aside for the time being.
A few moments later, while watching a bee land and begin working one of the blossoms, a silent message came in the form of a memory when an image flashed by of my smiling mother holding a vase containing some flowers she had gathered from her flower bed. Just like that an angel thought had come to call, and I knew the right choice was to cut off the ends of the budding and blossoming plum limbs and put them in some water in order to preserve them for the bees.
As of now, they are blooming gloriously and still being visited—not only outside by the bees, who are busy converting that pollen, which would otherwise have gone up in smoke, into life-nourishing honey, but inside on a windowsill by my thoughts as well. Isn't it funny how the spirit of Life always gives us the answers we seek when we choose life? And the taste and fragrance of eternal Life, manifested in any form, can only produce joy!
I suppose what prompted me to write this little Sunday message was a video clip of Dr. Steven Greer I saw last evening, who said something rather astute, which fit my experience and gave the words of Jesus a clearer meaning. Paraphrasing, he said, "We often hear the saying, 'For many are called, but few are chosen.'" Greer explained there's an underlying meaning to it: that we all have free will, and we should view the statement from this perspective: "For many are called, but few choose to answer the call."
Greer's thought helped reinforce for me the fact that eternal Life is the true, uninterrupted spiritual realization of life, ours to enjoy now, the gift we are chosen to receive, by virtue of aligning our thoughts and actions—our will, with God's will—by always answering that guiding call to choose life.
In simple terms, I'd like to suggest: —God is Life. Choose the path followed by the chosen who've passed this way before and answer the call which leads to eternal Life—at all times and in all situations—and Life will choose you. I know this to be true.
Have a blessed Sunday, y'all!
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...I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life....
—Deuteronomy
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Sometimes I'm catchin' all I can
In the steady watching
Of the Prophets' plan, oh
And the good life of 'live' they foretell
Will keep us our souls very well
In the wisdom of right ever long
And the spirit of us is just livin' on
—Tommy Hall
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