Altar of Sacrifice

What have you sacrificed?

Is it time spent away from your family and filled in at the office? Is it compromising your integrity for a financial bonus? Is it lowering your self-respect in the face of adversity? Is it offering less to someone in need when you have enough? Is it your standards of moral behavior when the people in the room change? Is it your future for a bottle of whiskey? Is it your child's future for a line of cocaine? Is it your faith out of fear of death?

Sometimes, we think we are making sacrifices for all the right reasons, only to discover later, how wrong we were.

So, on that note, the quote of the day is:

"The only sacrifice suitable for the altar of God is your wicked ways." tc

Complacency

If I am honest with myself, I can see areas of my life where I have become complacent. It is not that I shouldn't find contentment in my life but too often, contentment leads to laziness or taking someone or something for granted.
Sooner or later, we come to understand that without doing "The Work," whether in a personal relationship, a job, spiritual enlightenment or daily activities, we have failed ourselves in growing into the dynamic person that we have the potential to become. When we wake up to the depth of our complacency, it is usually when someone or something has passed us by. Life happens now. So, embrace this moment of your life and leave "forever" for God to control.

So, on that note, the quote of the day is:

"The vast mesa ahead presents an unknown and alluring invitation into endless possibilities, if you are brave enough to venture beyond your complacent state of being." tc