What is it all about?

I have not had much opportunity lately to blog.  I feel like I havent had much time for anything.  Maybe it is just an overload of holidays, work, school, family, and everything else.  In the blur of life around me I have finally had time to think about a few things.  Here are a few of my thoughts.

• Sure, I am getting laid off from work, but should I not consider that as an opportunity to achieve more?
• I have a couple of weeks off before Christmas….I am going to love that time with my family.
• How do I focus, and find what my next step is in my life?
• What is my life all about???

Today I viewed the story of a young man with muscular dystrophy.  He had attempted suicide multiple times without success.  Finally, his father told him to stop feeling sorry for himself.  Once he allowed that to sink in he began viewing this disease as a gift.  An opportunity! 

I then sat and read the accounts of several martyrs tonight.  Morbid? No.  A cause for a self exam?  Yes.

What is it all about?  My life, Spiritually, Mentally, Emotionally, in regard to my family, in dealing with my struggles…… everything….   What is it all about???  As of now this is what I do know!

1. It is about legacy…. Not of me, but of Christ.  A living display of the Master Creator that made you and I in His image. 
2. It is about my wife….  I can succeed at everything in life, becoming famous, wealthy, whatever….But if I fail at my commitment to my wife, then not only have I robbed myself and my wife, but also our children, (someday)grandchildren, friends and other family.
3. It is about my Children….  I can never do in my lifetime what they can in theirs.  It is a great responsibility to teach them that life is far greater than what they directly see.
4. Perspective….    I cannot possibly understand what my life is all about until I have the proper perspective.

What will be next in my life?  I have no clue….. 

What is it all about??   That is becoming more and more clear.  I want to be the guy in the picture that.. whenever others see me, they see Christ living in me!

Who do you look like?

One last thing..  In China, November of 2000; 450 churches were blown up, and destroyed.  The statement made by the wife of Pastor Li (A pastor who was imprisoned more that fifteen times in 18 months) was this. “

“Don’t feel sorry for us, At least we are constantly reminded that we are in a spiritual war. We know for whom we are fighting. We know who the enemy is. And we are fighting. Perhaps we should pray for you Christians outside of China. In your leisure, in your affluence, in your freedom, sometimes you no longer realize that you are in spiritual warfare.”

Man, that certainly reminds me what it is all about!