Nail biting

Don't worry.  I am not breaking copyright nor am I an agent for Tom Cruise.  It just is that I saw the latest Mission Impossible movie this week and it was just an incredible experience - action packed, keeping you on the edge of your seat.  At the end, you felt you had really been somewhere doing something and it added excitement to a day that could have otherwise been rather dull. 

Isn't that what we try to do?  Add to life; give it more color.  How to do that without going to a great Tom Cruise movie?

I often think that life is given to us as a banquet but so often we treat it like it is a sandwich picnic.  I see that in myself at times.  I see it among people who go to church, supposedly publicly proclaiming the glory of life, but maybe they are not aware that this is what they are doing in church which can be so dull and so out of touch with the world.  This was not the way it was meant to be but such is the way it is given so often. 

It is Buddhist Lent, a time given for reflection hopefully.  This is a good time to stand back and see life for the banquet it is and not just wait to be woken up by the next Hollywood action blockbuster.  Still, what a great movie!