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Our Years Are Like the Leaves

“The years
Fall like dry leaves
From the top-less tree
Of eternity.
Does it matter
That another leaf has fallen?”

-New Year by Langston Hughes

How many Pharaohs of Egypt can you name? How many emperors of Rome or ancient China? Most reading or listening to this in the US would be hard pressed to name all the presidents much less name any of their accomplishments.

That’s all to say that most of the things on which we spend our time, that we stress and sweat over, are as the writer of Ecclesiastes declares, are vanity, meaningless chasing after the wind.

Leaves dry up and blow away. But while they are alive they collect the sunshine and feed the trees. They provide shade and shelter for the forest animals and oxygen for us all. Their breathtaking beauty amazes and inspires.

To Hughes’s question, do they matter? Yes they do. Our lives are like the leaves. They matter. We matter.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Where Do We Want to Be More Loving?

After reflecting on where we experienced love this past year, and after reflecting on how we have shown love, it’s good for us to reflect on how we would like to be more loving.

Where are the times and places, what are the situations, who are the people around which we’d like our life’s response to be rooted and grounded in love? Not anger, bitterness, resentment, envy, fear, greed or lust, but love?

It’s easy for many if not most of us to find ourselves tripped up or triggered in real time. If life had a do over button, there are quite a few scenarios we’d handle better and differently, or so we tell ourselves.

The truth is there are a lot of situations that play out similarly time and again. And guess what, time and again we fall into the same jacked up pattern of response .

The key for us is to recognize the pattern as it’s happening, interrupt it, and replace it with more love based thoughts, words, and deeds. For myself I started in traffic. Where do you want to start?

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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When Did We Show Love?

After reflecting on where we experienced love over this past year, it’s good for us to take some time to reflect on the times that we have shown love.

One of the universal spiritual principles is that we tend to reap what we sow. The things we put out into the world are the things that tend to come back to us.

If we want to experience kindness and tenderness, if we want to experience empathy and understanding, if we want to experience love and forgiveness, we must become the kind of people who give those things to others.

Thinking back, when did we show patience with others. When were we considered and kind? When did we give without any expectation of receiving any thing back in return? In short, when were we loving?

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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