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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Haydon Spenceley

Good morning.

As we look forward to a new week, choices lie ahead. Prioritising can be a real challenge. So many things seek our attention, our focus, competing for time, making us feel even more busy than we actually are. We can feel compressed, crowded, squashed, perhaps even somewhat paralysed, in deciding which things matter and should have first place on our to do lists. So much so that it is easy to actually get through a good part of a day so concerned about picking the right thing to do that we don鈥檛 actually do anything at all. I don鈥檛 know if I鈥檓 the only one who has this problem.

God seems to ask those seeking to know how to make the most of their time to look at some key aspects of life in their decision making. Act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with God.

Acting justly looks very different in each situation and circumstance, but I am reminded that justice means putting others before ourselves, having a well-balanced love of God, self and neighbour (they all have to be equal to really work well). That鈥檚 a good start. Justice doesn鈥檛 involve hurting or putting others down. Loving mercy means seeking to actively forgive and encouraging others to do the same.

Walking humbly with God means knowing who we are and whose we are, where our life and breath comes from. I鈥檇 love to get those things right more often than I do, starting today.

Father help me to trust you, to act for justice, to rejoice in mercy and being merciful, and to know I am your son and walk hand in hand with you today.

Amen