The morning after the big day is same as the morning before the big day, and the morning of the big day.
The you after the big day is different from the you before the big day, and the you on the big day.
We all have big days.
Few big days significantly change our direction or weigh heavily on the alternatives that follow, yet big days are given disproportionate attention, because we are always inclined to believe in silver bullets. A big day is the ultimate silver bullet.
Big days have their value as a learning opportunity. The preparation it provokes helps us become more attentive. The anxiety it brings helps us realise how much we need others. The aftermath helps us realise how powerful a moment is.
However, big days are also a distraction from what is important and enduring – each day. Each day actually makes or breaks big days, but it passes by so quietly, you need to be a willing observer to learn from it.
Each day is the difference between those that use the big day as leverage, and those to whom the big day will continually be a burden.
– Osasu Oviawe
Day: November 5, 2020
The resurrection
John 6:37-40
All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will not cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me; and this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up at the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Homily:
All are called, many hear, few respond.
Jesus continually nudges us to choose the resurrection.
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”” – John 11:25-26