Your glory

Where is the glory in eating a burger and fries from the drive-thru?

Or binge watching TV?

Or scrolling through social media?

Or sleeping in on Sunday morning?

We know enough to know that glory–the deep soul satisfaction, the “shine on life” that comes from accomplishment, from overcoming–is not found in the cheap stuff, the easy stuff.

A glorious life must be, by definition, a hard life.

A life of challenge, disappointment, drudgery, failure, resistance, setbacks.

It is true that the harder the life, the more fuel for glory’s glow.

Also true: Life is hard.

Just plain old everyday life.

If you have a body, you will have hardship.

If you have family, you will have hardship.

If you go out and about in the world and do something out there, you will have hardship.

So life, everyday life, your everyday life…is glorious.

No, no. I didn’t say it could be glorious; I said it is glorious.

If you do the work–whatever that work may be–of making it through the day, it may not feel like glory, but it is glory.

Your glory.

Lest you forget the gift of glory you are being given today, go back over what you already did today. It could be as simple as making a healthy breakfast for your kids or as high stakes as going to your chemo treatment.

Every bit of it, whether big or small, hard or simple, is glorious.

You are glowing with glory.

Give thanks. And get ready to be glorious again tomorrow.

Grace and peace.