Third Friday of Advent
Originally posted Tuesday, December 18, 2012
“You chosen by the Lord.” The subject line on the email this morning was intriguing, and when I opened it, I got the same message but with additional instructions: “View the attached file pls.”
Of course I knew that means I’d been chosen to receive a totally bogus offer that would result in identity theft or a computer virus or both. The only “Lord” the email was referring to was “Lord So-And-So,” commander general and deposed potentate of some third-world country who has chosen me to collect $1 million if I’ll open my bank account to a deposit of $100 million for his safekeeping until he gets out of the country and into exile. So of course I didn’t open the attachment and instead trashed the email.
Still, the subject line stirred my thoughts because on its face it is true. We all are chosen by the one real Lord, and we just have to figure out what we are chosen for. Usually that means we are chosen to be exactly who we are, doing what we do in the best possible way. Sometimes that can mean being chosen to do something that we might consider impossible or extraordinary – especially for us.
But we’re all chosen for something.