I stared at the 23 on the face of my watch. I knew the number was significant but it took me a few moments to make the connection. It’s August 23rd, one month since my knee replacement surgery. What a month it has been.
I have a full day today. I am preparing my blog at 3 a.m. Then I have some office work to do. I will hit the gym close to 5. Thereafter, I will meet two of my Kairos buddies and travel with them to Angola to inspect Camp J for a possible Kairos weekend in February. I will lunch in Baton Rouge with two of my favorite clients and at 4 this afternoon will have coffee with the man who will likely be the next pastor of my church. That means I will be returning to Lafayette in 5 p.m. traffic, a good opportunity to spend with praise music and God.
It’s a full day and it will not include canes or pain pills or handicap parking (well maybe handicap parking, after all my placard is good for a couple more years). It’s a good thing to be focused on things to do rather than on what can’t be done. God is in the miracle business but what He does with tissue or surgeon’s hands or any circumstances isn’t as impressive as what He does with our perspective.
I enjoy going to to the gym because there is always (or at least usually) someone older, fatter and uglier working out. That’s a cynical way of expressing new perspective. We are all older, more forgetful, and closer to “going home” than we were yesterday. But we all have full agendas. There is much to do and much to enjoy and much to share.
We need to spend more time living and less time regretting. Next time you’re sitting in your vehicle consider how large your windshield is compared to your rear view mirror. That’s an illustration of how much we should look forward and how little we should look back.
God is just as good today as he was a month ago and life was just as abundant then as it is now. It’s all a question of perspective.
Look ahead, then get going and get blessed.
Nick
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