Don’t wait to get ready One of these days I plan on getting ready… The challenge of waiting to get ready is that there is always something else that needs to be done BEFORE I can get ready. A job to do, a relationship to work out, finances to get in order, kids to get graduated, moved, or married… But Jesus doesn’t want us to GET ready…he wants us to LIVE ready. "Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks. When we think about being “dressed for action” we might reflect on Ephesians 6: 10-18 (Put on the whole armor of God…) or Colossians 3: 10-17 (Put on then, as God chosen ones…) as ways that we are to LIVE ready. As followers of Jesus, we do this by daily pulling on these “clothes and armor” in the power of the Holy Spirit. We remember that these new “outfits” are gifts from our Heavenly Father who delights in giving good gifts to his children. What if we started each day by asking God to help us LIVE ready for whatever may come. Blessings,
Matthew+ Grant to us, Lord, we pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that we, who cannot exist without you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (BCP p. 232) | 
