Today

Here I am, today I am responsive, other days not so much. Today I am aware, today I see where You stand, You stand next to me.   Today I listen and hear with my hear, You call out my name, You call me love, You call me Yours.  Today I woke up and decided to me everything You ever told me I could be: I will be compassion, I will be hope, I will be faith, I will be peace, I will be light in the darkness, I will be action amongst the apathy.  Today I know my purpose for I have paused and heard, in the silence, Your call; I have felt Your love.   Today is like any other day yet it is so much more; today I have chosen to be responsive, I have chosen to ignore the murmurings which often take my attention.  I am attentive today and, like everyday, You speak to me, You take my hand and my heart and walk into the moment prepared to love, to hold, to comfort, to support.  Today I understand every word You have ever spoke to me for

I have taken the opportunity to listen. My heart has responded to my soul and I sit in silence aware of my surroundings, You are my surroundings. My eyes are opened by Your gift of wisdom and I see like I have never seen before.  I see love where there once was only hate; I see hope where there was only despair; I see closeness where once there was distance; I see reality when once there were only illusions. Your heart and mine have fused as one; my soul leaps with joy for now I understand the importance of this moment, I understand how crucial today really is for today I have finally become responsive, I have taken charge of my purpose.  The sun shines, the birds sing and I stand ready to serve, prepared to act when my name is called upon for today I practice humility and, on bended knee, I offer to You all that I am and all that You know be to be, to become. Sometimes I am lost among my own thoughts, lost among the chaos we , as humanity, have created as life. But today, today is different because today I let my heart respond, I let my heart lead and today I become alive in You love, alive in the actions of my faith. No more pandering to the unimportant bellowings of our human existence. I can make humanity come alive with each today to which I am responsive as today. My hope, my prayer is that each and every day I become more responsive until it is my heart which leads without confrontation from the mind; that my soul becomes to intertwined with Yours that it become impossible to see where one stops and the other begins.  I have an opportunity with this day to make it my lifetime, a lifetime of living the reality of Your love. Strengthen my heart that I may become cognizant of the many trick and traps the mind sets; the many directions in which the world pulls and the only direction which I need concentration...on bended knee.  Today I am aware of my heart, aware of my soul, aware of the pretentiousness of my mind and I respond in love to Your call. I am prepared to surrender my soul to Your will, surrender my nagging ego that I may live in love, that I may be consumed with Your love and live all of my todays purposed with love, excited in faith, and aware of the truth of my existence in Your reality.  Today I am responsive, today I discard the distractions, free myself from the shackles to which I willingly fell victim.  Shackles no longer for my heart was and is the key, I am free to know, to love, to serve You and understand my purpose.  Today I live as love for today I paused and heard You call out my name. In this silence I came to life, in this silence my world became ignited in faith and now I mark this moment with a promise; a promise to pause, a promise to respond, a promise to live love each moment of each day for tomorrow is not understood for humanity yet it is guaranteed for the soul rendered in love, acting in faith, understood in the reality of You. I am that soul, I will mark each day, each stranger with love, each moment with hope. Today is the day my response changed my life all because of a pause.