Faith Matters: Got religion?
Published: 5/16/2021 4:26:01 PM
Lately, I have been remembering a sermon my friend Mike preached nearly 40 years ago. Mike had recently experienced an acute health event — a heart attack. He had come through it well, had healed and was determined to use the moment of his brush with mortality to its maximum effect: he vowed to enjoy every day, every moment, to its fullest — to not let a day pass unnoticed, unappreciated.
Yet much to his astonishment, just a few weeks along, the feeling was already beginning to fade. Old complaints and grumpiness were returning. No matter how much he reminded himself that his very life had been snatched from the precipice of death, he seemed, day by day, to be slipping back into old ways, old habits. He couldn’t stop himself, and he was saddened anew as he proved incapable of holding onto his awakened state.