This old guy Socrates was born in 470 BC! That is almost 2500 years ago! 2500 years I cannot put my head around this number. I am dealing with my mortality, my 65th year is closing soon. He too was a living, breathing man. Life changes, our bodies change and we will soon be gone from this earth.
The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but building on the new.
Socrates
As I muddle through this journey called
life, I am coming to grips (I hope) with the fact that I am here for a brief
moment in time but it is God's time. I look in the mirror and think
who is this person staring back at me. I am still
me! I become older each day and knowing that God has numbered my days. There is no guarantee of a tomorrow or of a next year. However,
there is this moment and so far this day. What am I going to do with it?
I am watching my life change. Is it
a comfortable thought? No! Because I am not the change agent.
However, I want to embrace life and take advantage of each day, I want to
remain curious as I was as a child!
I will embrace my next opportunity to
engage in the culture. I will embrace my next opportunity to travel or do
missions work or both (they often go together). Will I be
comfortable? Probably not.
But the alternative to not having a
bucket list, not embracing an adventure or engaging with someone who is not of
my generation is to die a slow, non productive, selfish death. God has
each of here for a purpose it is not to watch the clock tick until He takes us
home.
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