40 & counting...

(Today is one of 3 days off from the gym - Sunday, Monday, & Wednesday. But my goal this week is to achieve - by Saturday - the ability to run 6 mph for 2 min/then 4 mph for 1 - that cycle over 30 min.)

Here were my thoughts for the paper this week... the workout regemine makes me even MORE ready for heaven!
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It is the season for graduations. People across the nation are completing one stage of life and entering a whole new world. Here at Son-Rise, people are graduating from all different levels of schooling. We will even have a round of graduates from our first Dynamic Marriage Seminar.

The funny thing about graduation is how monumental it seems, and in some ways it is. There was surely a lot of work in twelve years of public schooling, four years of college, or even eight weeks of marriage therapy. We are so happy to have it all behind us and “get on with real life”. However, those of us who’ve donned the cap and gown, walked the line, and been handed the paper know that it’s just the beginning.

Awaiting us is, in fact, the real world. And most of our “education” has really only prepared us to be tutored by life. The most complicated math and science problems have only been the building blocks of further discovery and innovation. There is much more to come in the much longer segment of our lives in “the real world”.

Have you ever thought that our whole life is really much the same way? Life seems so long. By the end of it we think we’ve learned so much. But we don’t realize that our death is only a “graduation” of sorts into the real “real world”. In eternity, what we’ve come to learn about life in a short eighty or ninety years will be so elementary. What we often trudged through with varied success will only be the preparation for what God has in store for us in a never ending life of new discovery, fulfillment, and joy.

Are you prepared to graduate?

Some people do manage to leave school with diploma in hand – yet unprepared for the real world. Many more people leave life itself – unprepared to meet God in eternity. And, perhaps, the daunting thought is: we never know when our name will be called to “walk the stage” and enter eternity.