Reflection
Jun 14, 2025
Should We Choose to Particate
In the rush of modern life, it's easy to overlook the quiet, powerful truths that give our days meaning. Should We Choose to Participate by J.K. Harrill is a heartfelt meditation on the beauty found in everyday experiences—family, friendship, seasons, and small victories. Written with poetic clarity, it invites us to pause, reflect, and embrace the richness of life that unfolds when we choose to be present. This timeless message reminds us that wonder is all around us, should we decide to truly engage with it.
Life Holds Many Wonderful Things
Single Victories – That remove all thought of despair caused by what seems to have been a lifetime of defeats.
Children – God’s peacemakers, reminding us that wisdom need not be profound or complicated.
Family – Our roots that keep us firmly planted as we grow tall, like a tree reaching out to touch a sky that is always just out of reach.
Friend – An honor too commonly given an acquaintance but a rare individual who finds the time when there is no time. A person who will give of himself when you have no more of yourself to give. A person with corrected vision, seeing clearly when your own eyes become blurred. Truly a pearl among our treasures.
Mate – Family, friend, in some cases a giver of children, in all cases a giver of life. The person who makes you aware that our language is so incomplete when you try to express the love and compassion felt. The person that makes forever seem like such a short time, yet can make time stand still.
Seasons – A subtle constant reminder of the parallels between nature and humankind.
Spring, as with youth, a time for planting.
Summer, a time of cultivation of seeds sown.
Fall, the harvesting, a time of maturity, of understanding,
the time we become aware that as we have sown so shall we also reap.
And Winter, the time God gives us sight as He removes the leaves from the trees that we may see more clearly the greatness of our God.
A God who in six days could create a world with such detail that we will spend a lifetime trying to comprehend it.
Then on the seventh day He rested, such is winter, a time of rest,
a time of anticipation of a new and more wonderful world to come.
Should We Choose to Participate
— J. K. Harrill
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