Spend It

Your soul can be saved, but your life has to be spent to do it. There is no way you can stand still in the process. It all moves for­ward. Actions are invest­ments — as are every­day choices. The “econ­omy” of real­ity is dynamic. Each morn­ing when you wake up, you have a cer­tain amount of life-capital to spend. It varies a lit­tle by indi­vid­ual, but by the end of the day all of your attempts to hoard it will come to naught — so spend it.

Spend it on glean­ing insights, help­ing oth­ers, appre­ci­at­ing the whole big show of the uni­verse, and pur­su­ing the ONE that set all of this up. Time is money, but it is not the cur­rency of the state. It is the cur­rency of des­tiny. Squan­der it and it will turn to dust in your pock­ets. Jesus’ para­bles were filled with mon­e­tary exam­ples — par­al­lels between the use of money and eter­nal life. Find­ing true val­ues in life are like stum­bling into the win­ning lot­tery ticket (the “pearl of great price”) or dis­cov­er­ing riches in a com­mon field (be shrewd and opportunistic).

Go to bed at night like you would go to your grave: exhausted, ful­filled, and in the pos­ture of the win­ning marathon run­ner (on your hands and knees — hav­ing given your all). No one can hang onto this life for more than a few years. Use these years in pur­suits that sat­isfy the soul. You will not regret it.

I do not plan to die with money in the bank or food left in the refrig­er­a­tor. Life is for the liv­ing. It is rel­ished by the spir­i­tu­ally brave. Do not waste it; there is no sec­ond option. What­ever you are about, go about it with all you have and all you are. The whole-hearted approach is the only one that really works.

“Seize the day!”