50 Ways to Get Through Easter... Impulse!

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you.” (John 14: 27)

Easter Day #31: Impulse!

Have you ever had to act on your gut instinct? How did it go? Did you succeed? Did it turn out better than you thought? Did you fail? Did it hurt? What did you learn?

Answers to questions like these are definitely the building blocks of a spiritual journey, for walking a path of faith always requires that you act on an IMPULSE from time to time. Yes, there are plans to be made, and recipes to follow in life, but every now and then our faith requires us to go with our gut IMPULSE. We’ve all heard the phrase, “it just felt like the right thing to do at the time.”

There’s an inherent risk in going with your gut, and that is what makes it likely that there will be hardships ahead. But when you act on an IMPULSE that is rooted in a life of Christ, you tend to do the right thing more often than not. We have been promised that the “Peace of Christ” has been left with us to use and to share in our own journey. Some choose to embody this peace, while others put it on a shelf and retrieve it when needed. Still others, take it for granted, and never really add it to their routines at all. To the ones who embody it, their IMPULSE is most certainly one of peace. To the ones who retrieve it, the IMPULSE may or may not be peaceful, depending on whether or not there is time to remember “to get it off the shelf”. To the ones who ignore it, the IMPULSE is most certainly uncertain at best.

May the peace of our Lord be with you always!

Let us act on an IMPULSE and pray for the currents, coastline, wildlife, and people of the Gulf Region. There is an oil slick still being fed by a leak that needs fixing. The north wind is doing its part today to keep things off shore, but we are facing a potential environmental catastrophe that calls us to act. If your IMPULSE is to pray, then pray! If it is to collect degreasing soap and rags to send to the coast so that they are ready to respond, then collect! If you have no IMPULSE to do anything, then please consider re-reading this post, and try one of the two options listed here. Thanks!