“Life is a glorious opportunity, if it is used to condition us for eternity. If we fail in this, though we succeed in everything else, our life will have been a failure. There is no escape for the man who squanders his opportunity to prepare to meet God.”
— Billy Graham

These were good words for me this morning. Mainly because Graham reminded me that I have been squandering opportunities by allowing myself to be distracted from emailing you all on a more regular basis like I have at times gone by. This has also been gently tugging at me as I have run into a few of you around town and it has been commented on how my ramblings have been less frequent. Well, with God’s blessing may that all change. Every morning that I do not take the time to stop and wonder is an opportunity missed at “preparing to meet God”.

Today, as you go about your adventures, may you take the time to stop and wonder, to stop and meet God where you are. He is there. I fail at that far more than I succeed, but that is my fault not His.

I’m reminded of the Narnia movies, which Lori and I watched around Christmas. It wasn’t that Aslan was so much gone in the second and third movies, but more that no one but Lucy really went in search of him. I need to bring that Lucy out in me, the seeker of God. I have allowed other tasks to distract me from “conditioning myself for eternity”.