9.08.2008

The Post About Completing Sentences

In my Sunday School class yesterday, we did a little activity to help us dig deeper into each other. I would start a sentence and then each class member would finish the sentence on their piece of paper. Then they would pass it to the left. This went on for the following seven questions:
1. If I had $1000, I would...
2. I wish I were...
3. The happiest day of my life was...
4. If I could start this year over, I would...
5. The hardest thing for me to do is ...
6. The most important thing in my life is...
7. I always laugh when...

How would you finish those sentences?

This class of very different folks - guys, gals, teenagers, middleagers, musicians, athletes, gadgeteers, talkers, mothers, children - shared so much wisdom on #6. Every single person referenced a relationship that mattered the most.

But it was #4 that stirred a much-needed humility in me. I finished that sentence with "...be more committed to working out." Not that this is a pathetic regret, but one student finished it with "...prevent my father's death." Perspective.

2 Corinthians 4:8-10; 16-18: "We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies. That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever."

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