Just what is it?

What is it?

It was discovered millennium ago, wrapped in a protective covering, cherished for what it means, and examined for what it means. In fact, nothing ever created by God has been examined by or lived with by humanity more than it has.

It is useful or it is useless, and we get to decide It is neither hot nor cold nor high nor low. It simply is. Heck, physics can't explain it. Science has little to do with it actually.

I've been given more than a few, though I can't actually remember the first time I had one. I've wasted a few and used some in their entirety.

What is it?

To God it is useless. To us it means, or could mean, everything. It is viewable, or the reaction to it is viewable, or it can be completely invisible, going unnotice and unmentioned.

We decide how and when, but never what it was, which by the way is one way to measure it. What was doesn't mean what is nor what will be. Past sometimes corrects our use of it, and sometimes it has no bearing.

God has thousands of them, but chooses to use none in the way perhaps we would.

It is scientific, and yet there is a spiritual quality to it. It is as rigid as stone, and yet there is a looseness about it.

The worst of us all, the Hitlers of the world, are given more of these sometimes than the best of us all. And in that we wonder.

What is it for? It is where we live. It is our wake-up call. It is our joy, and it is our sadness.

Heaven itself celebrates it with shouts of joy and songs of praise, but Hell is watching it, too.

It showed up in Genesis, and will end in Revelation.

What is it?

It measures us, challenges us, excites us, tires us, makes us mature in some cases.

It served the Condor and the Groundhog and even Ferris Bueller. It participated in Independence and worked with the Longest of all.

What is it?

It isn't the wind, but it is filled with it. It isn't the flowers, but it is needed for them to grow. It isn't the mountain, but it commands the mountain and the mountain often responds over many of these acting in unison.  It is an eye-opener, and heart softener, and by each one of these does love grow.

Now, even when we figure out what it is, we have to figure what are we, us, all of us, going to do with it. Will we us it to our own advantage? Will we use it for others?

What have we planned for it today? What will we do, what can we do? Are there actual plans?

Do we take it one of these at a time? Do we understand that God doesn't?

Here's the bottom line, friends. Every reader has been given one of these for safe-giving. Every one has been given one of these to make a difference. Everyone has the ability, the gifts from God himself. The only thing that keeps us, all of us, from feeding all the hungry, from touching hearts everywhere, from helping the poor, is our misuse of one of these. Government can't do it. The Red Cross can't do it. Habitat can't do it without us. You name it, it comes down to us, and our decision on what to do with one of these.

Not 10 of these. Not 20. Not 100. Not a 1,000, which by the way is what one of these equals to God. One. It begins with a soft heart and one of these.

There is always going to be someone who wants us to fail, because in some ways in their minds if we fail, they succeed. But that's simply wrong. What is right is that we're given one of these, and how we use it, how we give it away to someone in need, how we work it, is everything.

Are we all going to drown in shallow water, or are we going to walk out in the middle and respond to the gift of one of these?

Feel free to offer your explanations of what it is, and what you've done with it lately.