You know that you are getting old when you bend over and think to yourself, âIs there anything else I need to do while Iâm down here?â Oswald Avery said about life: âWhen you fall, be sure to pick something up while youâre down there.â It would be a pity to fall down and not pick up something worthwhile during the experience.
The testimony of many across the years has been that they have picked up some of the most valuable things in life while they were down. Edmund McIlhenny operated a sugar plantation and a saltworks on Avery Island, Louisiana, before the Civil War. When Union troops invaded the area in 1863, McIlhenny fled. He returned two years later to find his sugar cane fields and saltworks destroyed. The only things left were some Mexican peppers that had re-seeded themselves in the yard. McIlhenny began to experiment with the ground peppers to make a sauce, which would add some taste to his dull diet. In doing so, he invented what we know today
Barely a year into my Christian walk, I was out shopping with friends when they began talking about what they were going to give up for Lent. One friend quipped that she had purchased a book of Lenten Prayers too. Being new, I was confused about what Lent was, aside from Lenten prayers. After all, it’s the stuff you pull from the trap from your dryer, right? Yes and no. Lent is the 40 days not including Sundays from Ash Wednesday to the Saturday before Easter. Lent is often described as a time of preparation and an opportunity to go deeper with God. This means that it’s a time for personal reflection that prepares people’s hearts and minds for Good Friday and Easter.
âBut according to his promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.â (2 Peter 3:13, ESV).
When Christians employ the phrase âlooking forwardâ it typically implies fixing oneâs gaze and thoughts on the upcoming return of Christ and the anticipated blissful place He will establish as a home for believers. Godâs Word instructs us to look forward. For instance, Philippians 3:20-21 (ESV) tells us; âBut our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.â
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Pope Francis is seen in a 2016 file photo greeting a man as he celebrates a Mass for migrants in St. Peter s Basilica at the Vatican. The Jesuits, who are involved in numerous outreaches to the poor and refugees, are in the initial stages of preparing an orderwide consultation on their personal vow of poverty. The pope is a member of the Jesuits. (CNS photo/Vatican Media via Reuters) Jan. 28, 2021 Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY Many Catholics look at religious orders of men or women and wonder what their vow of poverty means. After all, the brothers, priests and nuns run schools and hospitals, have large convents or abbeys and they all pretty much know where their next meal will come from.