Gaining Perspective

They hang on my refrigerator.  These words forming questions that I ask myself as I live the moments of my life.  Questions I need to ask daily.  They aren't mine.  I might have editted and personalized one slightly, but the main ideas and thoughts behind them are someone else's from a book that I cannot remember.  Yet, I have adopted them as mine.  Mine to ask myself within the specifics of my own life and time.  I use them regularly to gain perspective.  This is what I read:


Does God think this task is beautiful?  Does this task have a postive eternal significance?

 
and I stop, pondering, answering these questions of truth...always comparing my answer to God's wisdom and His direction for my life, making sure they align.  Then, I act, spending these moments of my life and time, chosing and doing, forging a path that only I could live, because it is mine...knowing each day adds words and time to the story becoming my life's story.


A Life's Story

Lines, curved and straight,
making letters
into words
read in sentences,
stating, commanding,
declaring, and questioning,
forming paragraphs in books
~ a story.

Seconds ticking,
counting minutes
every hour
of every day,
forming years
and decades in a life
~ a lifetime.

Impressions
becoming thoughts, 
making decisions,
turning into actions,
forming a path in life
~ a life story.

your life story, my life story.

 

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The two questions are from a book that I no longer remember the title or author.
If anyone can help me by supplying either, I would greatly appreciate it, and give the author credit.

The poem, however, is one I wrote while composing this post.  It is meant to accompany my words in the post.

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This post has been shared at Walk With Him Wednesday at A Holy Experience.

This week's topic is 'The Spiritual Discipline of Time.'