Still His

Part Five: Living as Reflectors

(five of fifth part series on - The Light: A Divine Devotion on the Truth of Being)

So what do we do with all of this? How do we live in the light of the light?

We Stay Connected

The moon does not decide one day to generate its own light. It faces the sun. It stays in position. It receives.

To be a reflector, you must first connect to the source. You cannot be a reflector if you are unconnected to the Source. Belief, faith and prayer are means of connection. Scripture and Worship are also ways to connect. Communing with other reflectors is also a means of connection. These are not religious duties; they are survival. They are how you keep your face turned toward the light.

We Accept Our Dependence

God did not create you to be the source. The moment you try to generate your own light, you produce only shadows. You become like a star that has burned out, a cold cinder pretending to be a sun.

There is freedom in accepting that you are a reflector. The pressure is off. You do not have to create the light; you only have to receive it and pass it on. You do not have to be brilliant; you only have to be faithful.

We Reject Hatred

Hatred is the disconnection. Hatred is the training ground for the great gulf. Every time hatred rises in your heart, you must recognise it for what it is: the enemy of your soul, the thief of your identity, the poison of your nourishment, the blindness of your direction.

You cannot fight hatred with hatred. That is like fighting darkness with darkness. You fight hatred by turning toward the light. You confess it, name it, and ask the Revealer to show you the face of the One who absorbed all hatred on the cross and responded with forgiveness.

We Become Rainbows

Go and be what the sky already declares. Be a living covenant. Be a reflector that breaks the pure light of God into all the colours of His character: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

Let your life be so beautiful, so colourful, so full of refracted glory, that people look at you and do not stop at you. Let them look at you and ask, "Where does that light come from?" And then, with joy, with gratitude, with the humility of a moon that knows it has no light of its own, point them to the Son.

A Prayer for Light

Illuminator, Source of all that is, You who spoke and light leapt to obey, shine upon us. We are dark without You, cold without You, lost without You.

Revealer, Jesus Christ, You who made the invisible visible, show us the Father. Open our eyes to see the glory that has always been there, hidden in plain sight, waiting for our gaze.

Spirit of the Living God, make us faithful reflectors. Bend us, break us if You must, but let Your light pass through us. Let the colours of Your character reflect in our lives. Let those who walk in darkness see, in us, a reason to hope.

And when the great gulf of hatred threatens to swallow us, when the disconnection calls to us, when the easy darkness tempts us, hold us fast. Keep our faces turned toward the Son. Keep us in the light.

You have appointed us to hold and shine the light. Remind us in times of darkness that light created us, and tasked us to shine the light in a dark world

Amen.

Going Forth

I have given you much by bringing you beyond the surface to a deeper depth. You should now be aware of the difference between the Illuminator, the Revealer, and the Reflector. I have taken you beyond just knowing there is light to teaching you the properties of light: identity, nourishment, and direction. You have been warned and shown the terror of disconnection, the gulf of hatred, the deception that would steal the rainbow from your soul.

Now you must choose.

Every day is a choice between light and dark, between connection and separation, between being a reflector and being a rock. The choice is yours. The light is on offer. The Source waits.

Do not let go of the promise. Do not let the world redefine the symbols of your faith. Do not let hatred dig its gulf in your soul.

Turn your face toward the light.

And shine.

Written by

Angela Doreen (c)

The end of my five part series on The Light.

Part Four: The Covenant in Colour
(five part series)

There is a sign given to us, a sign that gathers all of this truth into a single, beautiful arc across the sky. Genesis 9:12-17.

After the flood, after the waters of judgment had receded and Noah and his family stepped out onto a cleansed earth, God placed a bow in the clouds. Not a weapon, though it had the shape of one. A bow hung up, pointed away, a promise that never again would water destroy the earth.

The rainbow is the ultimate reflector. It takes the pure, white light of the sun and bends it through water droplets, breaking it into its constituent colours, revealing the full spectrum that has always been present but hidden. Without the droplets, the light is still there, but its fullness is invisible. The reflector makes the invisible visible.

And God said: "Whenever I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant." Genesis 9:14-15

God does not forget. The "remembering" is for us. The rainbow is for us. It is the visible sign of the invisible promise. It is the reflector that points us back to the Source.

The Deception

Now look at what has happened in our day. Look at how the reflector has been claimed, redefined, and detached.

The rainbow is beautiful. It is universally loved. It is emotionally resonant. And so it has been taken. An attempt to erase the covenant is underway. The world appears on the brink of forgetting the covenant, and many are attempting to have The Source removed.

The rainbow now becomes a flag, a logo, a symbol of human identity and human pride. It no longer points upward; it points sideways, back at ourselves. It becomes a mirror instead of a window.

Let's not get this twisted, it is not about the colours. God loves colour; He invented it. It is about the attempt to sever the connection. It is about trying to remove the reflector from our souls so that we may forget there is a Source at all.

When you see the rainbow now, you must make a choice. Will you see what the world tells you to see? Or will you remember?

Will you let the reflector do its work? Will you let those colours, those beautiful bands of refracted light, carry your gaze upward to the One who placed them there as a sign? Will you let them remind you that you, too, are a reflector, called to catch the light of the Son and throw it back into the darkness?

Written by

Angela Doreen (c)

Coming next part Five of Five

Part Three:The Terror of Disconnection (five part series)

Now we must speak of hard things. We must speak of what happens when the connection is severed, when hatred comes into the equation.

Hatred is not merely the absence of love, any more than darkness is merely the absence of light. Hatred is active disconnection. Hatred is the soul turning its back on the sun and calling the shadow it casts its own.

What Hatred Does

Hatred destroys identity. You cannot hate a person in their fullness. To hate, you must first reduce. You must strip away the complexity, the humanity, the image of God, and replace it with a single feature, a single label, a single offence. The hated become flat, two-dimensional, easy to despise.

And in doing that, the hater becomes flat as well. The hater's identity shrinks to the size of their resentment. They become defined not by who they are, but by who they are against. They lose their colour and become a walking shadow.

Hatred starves the soul. It offers a brief, burning energy, the rush of anger, the satisfaction of contempt, but it contains no nourishment. A soul feeding on hatred is a body eating sand. It feels full, but it is dying of thirst. It cannot produce love, joy, peace, or patience. It produces only more of itself: bitterness, suspicion, rage.

Hatred removes all direction. It narrows the field of vision to a single point. The hater cannot see the path; they can only see the target. They stumble over every good gift, every relationship, every opportunity for joy, because their eyes become transfixed on the one thing they despise. They are not walking a path; they are circling a drain.

The Great Gulf

There is a story Jesus told about a rich man and a beggar named Lazarus. The rich man, in his torment, looks up and sees Abraham far away with Lazarus at his side. He begs for relief, just a drop of water. Luke 16:19-31.

And Abraham speaks words that should freeze the blood of anyone who hears them: "Between you and me a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us." Luke 16:26.

That scenario is what hatred does. It creates a gulf. And it’s not a wall one can climb, nor a fence to scale, but rather it is an abyss, causing infinite separation, a disconnection so complete that no bridge can span it.

And here is the deepest truth: that gulf is not something God creates to punish. It is something the soul creates by its own choices. Every time we choose hatred over love, bitterness over forgiveness, contempt over compassion, we deepen the chasm. We train ourselves in disconnection. We practice for the ultimate separation.

Hell is not a party from which God excludes us. Hell is the natural, inevitable consequence of a soul that has so completely chosen disconnection that it can no longer receive the light that gives it being. It is the outer darkness, the place where the reflectors have forgotten the sun.

Written by

Angela Doreen (c)
Part Four of Five to follow.

Part Two: What Light Actually Does
(five part series)

We have established who the light is and who we are in relation to it. But what does light do? What are its properties, its actions, its gifts?

Three things, and they are everything.

Light Gives Identity

Look at a rose in full sunlight. See that deep, velvety red? That crimson that seems to hold the very memory of blood and sacrifice? That red is not in the rose. The rose contains pigments that absorb all wavelengths of sunlight except red. The red is rejected, thrown back, refused. The red is what the rose is not absorbing. And yet that refusal, that rejection, is precisely what gives the rose its identity. The rose is the thing that says "no" to every colour but red.

Without light, the rose has no colour. It has no visual identity. It is just a shape, a texture, a shadow among shadows. But when light strikes it, the rose becomes itself.

The light of God does the same for you. When the Illuminator's glory, revealed through the Son, falls upon your soul, you begin to see who you actually are. Not who the world told you to be. Not who your fears made you. Not who your wounds shaped you into. But who you are in the light.

Your gifts emerge. Your purpose becomes clarified. Your particular beauty, the one that sets you apart from every other soul ever created, becomes visible. You are not a generic glow. You are a specific colour in the great tapestry of God's creation, and only the light can show you which one.

Light Gives Nourishment

Consider the green leaf. It stretches toward the sun not because it enjoys the warmth, though it does, but because it is hungry. The leaf takes that sunlight, that stream of photons travelling 93 million miles through the vacuum of space, and it drinks it. It consumes it. It uses that light to split water and carbon dioxide, then reassemble them into sugar.

Sugar is food. Sugar is life. Sugar is the stored energy that becomes the apple, the wheat, the timber, the oxygen you breathe. Every bite of food you have ever taken is, at its most fundamental level, a package of sunlight. You do not just live in the light. You live on the light.

Jesus knew this. He stood before the crowds who had followed Him not for His words but for the free bread, and He told them: "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry." John 6:35 NIV.

He was not speaking of barley loaves. He was speaking of the soul's true food. The light of the world is also the bread of life. You cannot separate them. The same light that reveals your identity is the light that feeds your soul.

When you pray, you are photosynthesising. When you read Scripture, you are opening your leaves to the sun. When you worship, you turn your face toward the light and let it do its work in you. The energy that transforms your struggles into patience, your failures into humility, your relationships into love, that energy comes from nowhere else. It is light, absorbed and transformed into life.

Light Gives Direction

Light travels in straight lines. This simple physical fact is the foundation of every eye that has ever seen, every navigator who has ever found their way, every child who has ever reached for their mother's face in the dark.

Because light travels in a straight line, we can triangulate. We can judge distance. We can perceive depth. We can see the obstacle and step around it. We can see the path and walk it.

The Psalmist knew this truth long before physics could explain it: "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." Psalm 119:105.

Not a floodlight revealing the entire journey from start to finish. A lamp. Light for the next step. Light for the immediate decision. Light enough to see that the thing in front of you is only a stone that you step over, it is not a serpent to be feared.

Connecting to the light gives you direction. You may not know what comes in ten years, but you know what comes next. You may not understand the full plan, but you understand the next obedience. The light creates shadows, and those shadows reveal the shape of things. You learn to read the darkness by the light that casts it.

Written by

Angela Doreen (c)

Part Three of Five to follow

The Light: A Divine Devotion on the Truth of Being

Beginning at the Beginning

What is light?

It seems such a simple question, the kind a child asks while staring at a bedside lamp or watching the sun creep over the horizon. We have an answer ready before the question is even fully formed: light is what brightens a dark spot. Light is what helps us see. Light is the opposite of dark.

But sit with the question longer. Let it press against you. Let it demand more.

Isn't there more to it than just something that brightens a dark spot? Of course there is. There is always more with God. The surface is never the destination; it is only the invitation to dive deeper.

This devotion is an acceptance of that invitation.

Part One: The Threefold Nature of Light

The Illuminator

Before there was anything, there was God. Not a God who existed in light, but a God who was light. The Apostle John, that one who had rested his head against the very chest of the Maker, wrote it plain: "God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." 1 John 1:5 KJV

This knowledge is the Illuminator to the Source. The Uncreated One who does not borrow brilliance from anything outside Himself because there is nothing outside Himself. He just is. And because He is, light is.

When you strike a match in a pitch-black room, you are performing a small act of creation. You are calling light into existence where none was. But God did not strike a match. God did not reach for a switch. God opened His mouth and spoke, and light leapt out to obey Him. Not because He needed to see, but because He needed to be seen by us.

The Father is the Illuminator. He is the eternal, inexhaustible, self-existent Source. Every photon that has ever touched your eye, every sunrise that has ever stolen your breath, every candle that has ever flickered in prayer, all of it is a borrowed echo of the
light that He is.

The Revealer

But any light that is only the source is unknown. The sun could blaze for eternity in the emptiness of space, and it would still be light, but it would not be known light. It would illuminate nothing, reveal nothing, touch nothing.

Which is why we have and need the Revealer.

Jesus Christ stood in the Temple, in the heart of God's chosen city, and made a claim that shattered the ears of those who heard it: "I am the light of the world." John 8:12 KJV.

Not a light. Not a reflection. Not a messenger carrying a lantern. The light.

He was not claiming to be a second, lesser source. He was claiming to be the Source made visible. He was claiming to be the Illuminator stepping out of the blinding glory and into the dust of Galilee so that blind eyes could finally see.

Philip, bless him, missed it at first. "Lord, show us the Father," he said, "and that will be enough for us." John 14:8 KJV.

And Jesus, the Revealer, must have felt the weight of the moment. "Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father." John 14:9 ESV.

The Revealer takes the Illuminator's invisible light and focuses it. He directs it. He makes the unapproachable approachable. He is the lens through which the blinding glory of God becomes something we can behold without being consumed.

The Reflector

And then there is us.

We who have no light of our own. We who, if left to ourselves, would be cold rocks tumbling through an endless dark. We who were never meant to be the source, but were always, always meant to be the reflection.

The moon has no light. You know this. It is a dead thing, a captured stone, a captive of gravity. And yet on a clear night, it can flood the earth with such brightness that you can walk without a lamp, read without a candle, see the face of your beloved as clearly as if it were day.

How? By facing the sun.

The moon's only job is to catch the light of that distant, blazing star and throw it back down upon the darkness. It does not generate. It does not create. It simply receives and reflects.

That is the same calling of every human soul that has ever encountered the Revealer and through Him, the Illuminator. Jesus Himself said it to His followers, and through them to us: "You are the light of the world." Matthew 5:14.

But mark this well. Jesus did not say, "You are lights of the world." He did not turn us into little suns. He said, "Let your light so shine before others that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven." Matthew 5:16 KJV

The light is His. The glory is the Father's. We are the reflectors, the blessed moons, the ones who catch the glory and throw it back into the dark places so that others might see where the true light comes from.

Written by

Angela Doreen
(C)

Part Two - coming soon

My devotion book is delayed due to unexpected circumstances, but I want you to know that by the grace of God, it is just delayed, not terminated. In the meantime, here is a particular description of who it's for. When circumstances allow, God will ensure it is finished for you.
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To the one who feels unseen, unheard, or unworthy, this book of devotions is for you. For every heart that has questioned its place, each soul that has wrestled with doubt, and every life that has wondered if grace still applies, know, He remembers you, and you are still His. ©️Angela Doreen

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"This book was meant to be in your hands by now. But life interrupted, I'm currently walking through cancer treatment. So, this little taste is my way of saying: I haven't forgotten you. God hasn't forgotten you. And this book is still coming, by His grace."
Angela Doreen

The Miracle Before the Water: Where you will genuinely find Salvation.

This morning, let us settle a matter of eternal importance. Let us speak not of tradition, but of truth, not of ritual, but of reality. In the journey of faith, there is a divine order that, when misunderstood, can leave a soul adrift. It is the order of faith and water, of the internal miracle and the external declaration.

Many approach the waters of baptism with a misconception, believing that the act itself will produce faith, that the water will wash away sin, and that it will grant Salvation. But let me tell you that approach is a dangerous misunderstanding that places the power in the pool rather than in the Person of Jesus Christ.

The Scripture is breathtakingly clear on this point. The Apostle Paul, writing to the Ephesians, leaves no room for confusion:

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9

Salvation is received, not achieved. It is a gift grasped by the hand of faith. This faith is not a passive acknowledgement of facts; it is the conclusive decision of your heart, mind, and will. It is the moment you come into the knowledge that your way is wrong and His way is right. It is the realisation that your own righteousness has you on a path of destruction.

And Jesus, who declared, “I am the way and the truth and the life, is the only right way to having everlasting life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6)—leads to the path of everlasting life.

When you believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, and you surrender to Him as Lord, you do so by faith. And that very faith is what ushers you into Salvation. It is the channel through which God’s grace floods your spirit. At that precise moment of belief, you are made new. Through that realisation, Salvation begins the work that leads us to the glorious resurrection and eternal life.

So, where does water baptism come into play?

Baptism is the glorious, public declaration of what has already happened within you. It is not the cause of Salvation; it is the seal upon it. It is your first act of obedience, a powerful testimony to the world. In baptism, you are not asking God to do something new; you are showing the world what He has already done.

Think of it this way: baptism is the wedding ring, not the marriage. The ring does not create the covenant of marriage; it symbolises and publicly proclaims a covenant that has already been in the hearts of two people. In the same way, baptism is the public proclamation of the covenant you have already entered into with Christ by faith.

The act of baptism in itself is rich with meaning: as you get lowered into the water, you demonstrate the burial of your old, sinful life. As you get raised out of water, you demonstrate your resurrection to a new life in Christ Jesus, a life with a new way, a new hope, and a new belief.

That is why the order is non-negotiable. To go down into the water without first believing in your heart is to perform an empty ritual. It is to go down a dry sinner and rise a wet one. The water has no power to change what faith has not first secured.

But when faith has taken root, when you have truly believed and received, then baptism becomes a powerful, joyful, and essential step in your spiritual journey. It is your bold statement to heaven and earth that you belong to Jesus. Water baptism symbolised that you have buried your old life. And have now risen to walk in newness of life with Him.”

If you are seeking truth today, do not look first to the water. Look to the cross. Do not trust in a ritual; trust in a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe in Him. Place your faith in His finished work. Without effort or cost to you, Salvation is offered. Accept this gift delivered to you through the blood of Jesus Christ.

Your acceptance of this gift is the key that enables your baptism to be the powerful testimony of a miracle that has already taken place in you. A celebration of the faith that saved you.

A Prayer for Today:

Heavenly Father, lead me to the truth. I turn from my own way, recognising it leads to destruction. I put my faith in Your Son, Jesus Christ. He is the way, the truth, and the life. I accept Him as my Lord and Saviour right now. Thank you for saving me by Your grace. Now, please lead me to declare this change in my life, with a public display by water baptism, not to be saved, but because your hands are already upon me, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Written by
Angela Doreen

It struck me this morning—and yes, it's something we knew all along—but have we ever truly stopped to ponder upon it? Jesus knew His end. He knew it was coming, and even when the forces were upon Him, have you noticed He never once relented? He never eased up from doing the Father's work.

He was still found doing the Father’s business in the midst of His trial. Even when death was upon Him, not once did He give up. With His very last breath, He was busy at work, thinking about you and me. He still wanted us to make it. Even after we stood by, after the shouts of "Crucify Him!" Right to the very end, He cared about our very soul.

So instead of agonising in pain, He pushed beyond the trial to ask the Father not to punish us, but to instead forgive us. Why? Simply because He recognised the enemy working in us, while working against Him.

And in that moment, He embodied His own mission: “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work” (John 4:34). He lived it until the final second.

As they drove the nails, His prayer was not for vengeance, but for our pardon: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34). He saw past our sin and saw the enemy’s deception.

And when every last ounce of the work was done, when the price for you and me was fully paid, He declared victory with a final cry: “It is finished” (John 19:30). The work the Father gave Him to do was complete.

So, friend, if you are wandering, if you feel you have stood by or turned away, hear this: the same love that prayed for forgiveness from the Cross is now actively working for you. Be confident of this very thing, “that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6). He hasn't given up on you, because giving up on us was never an option for Him.

Angela Doreen

A Prayer for the Storm: Standing on the Solid Rock

Heavenly Father, Your Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Your only begotten, walked upon this earth with unwavering truth.

And I thank you that He did not come with flowery words, nor did He sugar-coat things by promising us His followers an easy path. He directs us always to be righteous, to remain holy, just as He and the Father were heavenly, so too must we be blessed. He never whitewashes the truth, never compromises what is to come. He told us plainly that just as the enemy relentlessly pursued Him, we too would face trials and disasters that knock at our door. We, too, will walk through the unimaginable.

As His followers, we have never been exempt from this world’s sorrow. In fact, Christ indicated that the more faithfully we walk in His ways, the more we may encounter resistance. Yet, in the same breath, He commanded us not to give up or give in. He calls us to stand firm, to hold on even tighter, for He is right beside us, no matter the danger, the pain, the sickness or the ache.

Help us remember always our Saviour’s journey: the premeditation of the enemy’s accusation, the constant taunting, the beating, the scourging and oh let us never forget the nails driven into His hands and His feet. The destruction of the flesh was not His end. And so, we ought not to fear those who can only destroy the body. The flesh is but a temporary container, an outer shell not meant to last. The most essential part of us is the eternal soul, and this is what we must be sensitive to; this is what we must guard above all else. We are to fear only the One who can destroy both soul and body. In your word, you have indicated the part of us that we should be mindful of, which is our soul, for that is the part of us to which we connect to you, the divine; it is our soul that determines our everlasting destination and our place with You, our Father.

My God and my Saviour, I come to You this morning asking for Your presence through every trial of my life. I ask that you place a hedge of protection around my soul. Whatever tribulation comes my way, let it find me standing firm upon the Solid Rock, who is Christ.

Lord, I invite you now to press into my soul, my mind, and my thoughts the resounding truth that nothing can separate me from Your love. Even when we face death itself, and no matter what attacks assail us, Your love remains. You will not let go. You will not forsake us. For even through death, Your Son has walked, and now He reigns supreme and victorious! Your love enabled Him to defeat the grave and remove the sting of death. Because of Him, we have nothing to fear from the enemy, no matter what he hurls our way.

Amen.

Angela Doreen has written this prayer this morning to encourage and remind saints, Christ followers who are going through trials, may be suffering, and those who are questioning the pain of the earthly end. Christ went through it all. You are not alone.

The Prayer of a Lifetime: Between the Dash

If, by chance, God gives me the privilege of knowing my end, my one request would be simple:

Use me, God.

But my end date is not my primary concern. It matters not how close, how short, or when it comes. What truly consumes my thoughts is the opportunity, or lack thereof, given to me today. The chance to fulfil the purpose and to use the gifts that God has so graciously entrusted to me.

I am not writing a morbid story. It is not a goodbye. For in God, there is no end, only a passing through, and a final, well-earned rest.

But before that rest, I want to have completed all my tasks.

In the face of today’s relentless challenges, I do not pray for an easy path. My prayer is that, whenever my journey ends, I will be found strong in faith and standing firmly upon the only foundation, that of Jesus Christ, which cannot be shaken or moved.

“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.” Matthew 7:24-25

That Solid Rock is Christ. And upon Him, I want to build my life.

My greatest desire, my constant prayer, is to fulfil God’s purpose for me all the days of my life. I want to fight the good fight, to run the race with perseverance, and to cross the finish line knowing I gave it my all.

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” 2 Timothy 4:7

I want a prayer for a life of impact. I want a faith that can move mountains, not for my own glory, but to clear the path for others. I want to do what little I can, so that I can equip, strengthen, and inspire others for their own journey with the Lord. I want to use every gift, every resource, every breath the Lord has given me to ensure that His light burns brightly in a world filled with darkness.

“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden... let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:14-16

My friend, our time on earth will come to an end. This end is a truth we all share. But the dash, that small line between the year of our birth and the year of our death, holds our entire legacy.

Let this truth settle in your soul: That dash is our offering.

I speak not to unsettle you, but because this is the urgency I feel - not a fear of the end, but a passion for the time between. So that when our time comes to let go, we can do so without regret. Let there be no clinging to a life half-lived, no anguish over unfulfilled tasks. Do now so we can release our grip in perfect peace because we have poured ourselves out entirely for the purpose for which we entered this world.

So let us live with our eyes wide open to this grace. Let us use our dash so well that when we finally step into that rest, we will hear the words, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

Let us live a life so full of purpose that our final breath is not an end, but a triumphant “Amen” to a life well-lived.

Written by
Angela Doreen