Chaplains on the River

A special friend recently introduced me to the Wordle web site.  Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.  The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.  The wordle shown here is generated from the text of the English Standard Version (ESV) of the New Testament.

So the question I ask each of us to consider is a simple, yet profound, one.  If your life could be fed into this Wordle tool, and a word cloud representing the priorities of your life generated, what would it look like?  What things would be shown to have the most importance:   family…work…money…worries…recreations…faith? 

There are no right or wrong answers here, just a self-assesment of who we are and where we are on this journey of life.  As you consider what your life wordle might look like, the question to ask is are you pleased and happy with the result?  Have you achieved…or are you on the path to achieve…the goals you envision?  Are your personal and professional relationships satisfying and positive?  Are you responding or reacting to life?

If a medical doctor gives you a perscription, and you react to it, that is bad.  It means your body is allergic to that medicine or the medicine is having an adverse affect.  If, on the oter hand, you respond to the medicine, that is good.  It is having a positive and helpful affect. 

We all have times when it seems like we are “too busy” to stop and think.  It is important to pause and ponder our path through life ocassionally, just like charts or AIS keep the wheelman aware of the location and path forward of the boat.  Think about your life wordle…think about the implications…and keep moving forward on a right path!