Time Is To Short

It's been a while since my last post and I've missed the time writing out the thoughts of my heart. I was speaking last week at an event for High School students in Hot Springs, AR. It may have impacted me more than the students themselves. In my time with them I realized that the opportunity to make a real difference in the arena of life is extremely short.

I had the privilege to work with a group of young men that were entering into their last two years of High School. Two years... not long when you consider where life takes you after high school. Everything changes from the people you know to the places you live. Each of us has found segments of life that change at what seems like rapid succession. We move from one church, ministry, city, job or school to another with ease. But what difference was made in that pocket of our past? Were we simply glad to move on from a place we were searching for a way out of or possibly forced out by time or life itself? Either way, what difference did I make?

I approach life as if I have all the time in the world to be used by God. Content with meager bread crumbs of change and movement. I realized this past week that I was trying to motivate students to attempt something in the next two years that I myself was simply a bystander to. What am I going to do to change the landscape of my world arena in the next two years? Time is too short to let it simply pass by...