Today Shelly and I have started reading a book together called One Monty To Live by Kerry and Chris Shook. I don't really have only 30 days to live (I hope), but the challenge of the book is to examine how I live my daily life and what are things I would do.
Here is my first Lifework assignment:
Name five things I'd change about my life immediately.
1. I'd take a walk every day just to pray and enjoy the sounds of nature and enjoy the silence of life.
2. I'd spend a week's vacation with my family and all my closest friends (a list I could make easily and short).
3. I'd visit New England one more time and go to Fenway to see the Red Sox play the Yankees.
4. I would spend an hour a day with each one of my immediate family members just laughing, crying, praying and sharing. I'd invest all the values of my relationship with Jesus into my kids (probably through a journal.
5. I'd move to Costa Rica or New England to die.
Today, I choose to do number one and number four.
The reason I picked this book up is that Shelly and I are going through a "vision cramp". We had real vision about church planting in New Hampshire. We closed the church reluctantly and miss every moment of it. But finances and circumstances really dictated the necessity to change. God released us at the time but now we are without any vision. Secondly, as much as we love the beach neither of us is enjoying living here. Mainly because we have NO burden to reach this area. We are just pulling time. We want to do something radical but, honestly, I don't have the guts to do it most days. I don't want to disappoint my parents for one thing. But if I must be honest, I would hate to die right now, where I'm at, doing nothing for the Kingdom and without a vision or purpose.
Since I am doing this with my wife I am hoping that she notices the change more than anyone. We both want to live out our faith radically and we want to do it soon.
I am going to keep this blog going daily. Feel free to read along and comment on my experience.
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