Today's Daily Lesson comes from Mark chapter 2 verses 18 through 20:
18 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and people* came and said to him, ‘Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?’ 19Jesus said to them, ‘The wedding-guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.
The wonderfully wise Brene Brown writes and talks about what she calls "foreboding joy". This is what we do when we begin to obsess and forebode about all the bad that may happen to us in the future and allow it to rob us of our joy in the present.
Friends, it's a hell of a world right now. There are wars and rumors of wars. Gas is through the roof. We're all exhausted. We don't know what Putin will do next.
But if we're here in the West, we aren't under attack. We're still living really nice lives. People are marrying and being given in marriage and baseball looks to be back on for the summer.
Enjoy today. Celebrate the sabbath. Go out to eat. Drink the wine (if you drink). Dance sometime during Spring Break. And cancel a meeting if you can.
We need to hold on to Joy. The Bridegroom is still with us. Let's toast.
It sounds like an "Eat, drink, and be merry; for tomorrow we die" message.
And I say, what's wrong with that?
Eat, drink, love, find and be joy, pray, dance, throw a ball, and do a thousand small things with kindness and beauty.
We will die, someday. Let's die joyful and with gratitude.
Let's live that way also.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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