Reflection for Thursday, March 13, 2008

Romans 8:11-14

So I wrote this long reflection and pressed "publish post," then skipped off to celebrate my youngest sister's birthday. When I returned there was an error message saying "blogger" was temporarily inaccessible on line. I came back on before midnight to check if my post was saved somewhere on the site, but it is lost. The passage says, "you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep." This wake-up call really speaks to me, because I feel we are asleep most of the time. Sleep is actually a pleasant image. Most of us enjoy sleep and want more of it. (I know I do right now!). But Paul seems to be saying there is something better than being asleep and that is living honorably. There seems to be three ways to go through life--honorably, sinfully, or asleep. I don't fall under the list of sins Paul gives with drunkenness, debauchery, and licentiousness. But I do fall asleep--taking the path of least resistance, getting stuck in complacency, being caught in complicity from not taking action.

Living honorably each day is a lot more than not sinning, it is waking up and not shying away from the light.