busyness

Opening Prayer: Lord Jesus, help me never to miss you because I am too busy doing something else.  Amen.

Scripture: Mathew 25:1-13

Journal: What is your current level of busyness?  How do you feel about that?  How do you think God feels about that?  How does that busyness keep you from paying attention to God and what he is up to?

Reflection:

     busyness

     Mt. 25:13

we wear our busyness

like a badge of honor

a measurement of

our value and worth

but that badge

will not help us

at the midnight cry

when the words ring out

Here’s the Bridegroom!

Come out to meet him!

then there will only be regret

not that we had fallen asleep

but that we had been

too busy to notice

we did not have time to buy oil

there was too much else going on

therefore keep watch

because you do not know

the day or the hour

Prayer

Closing Prayer: Forgive me, Lord Jesus, when I get so preoccupied with my plans and agenda that I forget about yours.  Have mercy on me.  Amen.