FMF: Someday starts today
14:36
I love how these prompt words make me think and teach me something both in Holy Spirit reflections, but also in then reading the reflections of others in the group.
Now is a good time to honour and thank Kate for facilitating this FMF group and to thank all those who participate and share in it.
Thank you all.
‘Someday’ – my first thought was a song and I began singing ‘Someday I’ll fly away…’ – I got distracted with someday and rainbow songs too, so wanted to check the lyrics, only to realise they ran, ‘One–day I’ll fly away…’
So I began to reflect on Someday/one–day – and whether there was any distinction between the two.
I’m still not sure that there is, except that one-day sounds vaguely more optimistic than ‘someday’.
I began to think about all of the one-day/someday statements I have made myself throughout my life – dreams and aspirations that I didn’t believe to be within reach and so were relegated to the future – to one-day I’ll travel to India; one-day I’ll write a book; one-day I’ll be able to do that thing… ,
or even to the conditional – someday, if I ever have the money, time, courage, opportunity etc.….
These one-days and someday s, I realised were usually aspirational, wishful, positive hopes and dreams.
In faith terms the one-day/someday lean back onto the promises of God throughout history and even to personal promises from God to me. Often these promises refer to future blessings –
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Living in a fallen world and dealing with our own sin and the sin and pain around us, very often the one-day looked forward to is a place of no suffering, no pain, no evil, no fear –
– of a paradise; of seeing not in a glass dimly, but seeing face-to-face…
– of knowing, even as I am fully known by my Heavenly Father.
But today I was reminded of John 17:2- 5
You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
And I had the revelation that one-day/someday is today!
We are born anew for a relationship with God – the Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit.
This is eternal life.
Not only in a heavenly future, but in a heavenly now – for we are children of God, heirs with Christ, filled with the power and Spirit of God Himself.
Someday starts today!!
Alleluia.
14:50 – sorry.
Every Friday, I join an online Christian writing community, Five Minute Friday. We are given a one-word prompt and write – unscripted, unedited, pure free-write – for 5 minutes. The prompt this week is
I do read through my script afterwards to correct my mistakes; to check scripture references and to find an appropriate image to illustrate the topic.
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