The Art of Living

Living is an art. Life needs to be conducted with a high quality of conception or execution, with works of beauty. This is art. The ability to think about and execute with beauty your life and your connection with others. It is the ability to not waste time. It is the ability to live in each moment without feeling like time is being wasted. It is the ability to be active in life for God. It is the ability to love unconditionally. It is the ability to set ourselves and our egos aside for something that is far greater than ourselves. It is the ability to follow the dreams that God placed inside us before we were born.

But make sure that you don't get so absorbed and exhausted in taking care of all your day-by-day obligations that you lose track of the time and doze off, oblivious to God. The night is about over, dawn is about to break. Be up and awake to what God is doing! God is putting the finishing touches on the salvation work he began when we first believed. We can't afford to waste a minute, must not squander these precious daylight hours in frivolity and indulgence, in sleeping around and dissipation, in bickering and grabbing everything in sight. Get out of bed and get dressed! Don't loiter and linger, waiting until the very last minute. Dress yourselves in Christ, and be up and about!

Romans 13:11-14

What a difficult art! To be awake to what God is doing, rather than what we would like to see happen. To be up, dressed, and ready to respond in each moment with the mind of Christ. It is so easy to be oblivious to God when we get absorbed in our ego and the things that we tell ourselves that we need. We begin to worry, fret, become frustrated, and depressed. We lose track of time and we begin to want to sleep, doze off and just forget what is happening around us. Stop loitering. Stop lingering. Get up and begin the art of living! Connect to God, dress up with Christ and his attitude and mind. Get passionate. Get quiet in your mind. Get busy doing the work of God in each and every moment. There is nothing missing. Be intimate with God and then with others. Make your life beautiful.

Namaste'