Can You Relate?

After much reflection over the past few months and an attempt to determine where we go from here, I have concluded the following:

• I don’t want to live a life full of regrets.
• I don’t want to live a life that causes me to weep in front of my family in 30 years and apologize to them for not being there.
• I don’t want to live a life where I am controlled by critics and naysayers.
• I don’t want to live a life where I fear what man may think more than what God may think.
• I don’t want to live a life that is not marked by generosity.
• I don’t want to live a life in which my wife considers the church to be my mistress.
• I don’t want to live a life that causes my daughters to hate God and the church.
• I don’t want to live a life that allows those closest to me to disrespect me because I am not real.
• I don’t want to live a life in which I have no fun because I am all work and no play.
• I don’t want to live a life in which I look back and HATE the man I have become.
• I don’t want to live a life in which church becomes normal and routine and the person of Jesus becomes boring and dull.

[From Perry Nible]