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TUESDAY THOUGHT 2/26/08

Imagine thinking your life is over, that you’ve screwed the pooch big time this time!  That must have been how St. Paul (aka Saul) felt after he was rather strongly confronted by Jesus on the road to Damascus.  He was handed a one-two punch.  First, in a flash, he must have realized that everything — and I mean, EVERYTHING — he had thought was right turned out to be dead wrong.  Plus, he also faced the possibility of spending the rest of his life blind and hated. 
 
From the top of his game — rounding up those errant Christ followers in the name of God — to total loss of everything, including his purpose and “vision.”  Well, the good news (correction: the great news) is that Paul’s life took an abrupt and radical change and, almost single-handedly, he ended up spreading the good news of Jesus throughout the Roman world.  What an amazing transformation!
 
My point:  Never despair.  Never think you’re too bad or too weak or too far gone to change yourself and to change the world … or more accurately, to let God change you.  All it takes is listening when Jesus taps us, whispers to us…or knocks us to the ground.  Enjoy the many blessings of this beautiful day. — jri
 
“For three days he was blind, and
did not eat or drink anything.” 
    –    Acts 9:9