Relay for Life

I had the privilege to be apart of one of the greatest events that i have been apart of in my life. It was the Rockford Relay for life. This past weekend May 16-17 for 24 hours thousands of people come together for 1 thing and one thing only. Raise money for cancer research for the American cancer society. Wrap your arms around corporations, churches, families, and friends spending 24 hours together doing everything from archery, to football throwing to silent auctions to golf to fishing all to raise a few hundred thousand dollars. One thing, one interest, one goal, one day. The power of one. I have been trying to figure this out in my own life. The power of being focused. Relay for life is that power. Relay is that momentum. Sometimes in life we can get so busy doing multiple things and trying to be everything. Maybe your not. I am guilty of that and i and suffering form the effects of not focusing on one thing. What would happen if we all focused on one thing. What can be done in the world around you what can happen in your sphere of influence if you focused on one thing and did one thing with excellence and with drive and ambition. One thing is not lazy as some may think. One thing is not taking the easy way out.
Are you focused on one thing? what does one thing mean to you?

Who do you work for

As I was going through this past weekend, spending time at a golf outing and enjoying the great outdoors of a golf course then going out with soem friends at a resturant. I can't help but think of all the work that is done a daily basis, the golf outing helped to raise funds for Calvin Christian Schools and each hole was sponsored but a person or a company. Many people work to be able to put a sign up at a golf hole. I wonder at times who do i work for? i think of one of my favorite passages of scripture, Genesis 1:26-28, we are all created in God's image to have relationship with him. As i think of work and what i do i think of this verse. Do I do things as I am dong it in Gods' image. Do i do things to boast of who God is?

May 7

Focus, it is a word that is used in our language. When we hear focus we always hear something about focus. But what if you just had to focus. Do you find it hard to focus? What si my life focused on? i recently was at a conference at Western Seminary in Holland MI and the leader of the conference, the great Mark Yaconnelli stared the conference doing a little Lectio Divina. a Great ancient art of readinga nd praying and mediataing on the scriptures. He read a passage that has helped me to focus my my work in the Body of Christ with the church i serve. I am presently the YOuth Pastor and Pastor of The WELL a new service we have at Rockford Reformed Church. Take a look at Mark 10-16 What do children focus on? the present day and whta do i need to do to be like a little child and focus my life like one of the little children to enter the kingdom of heaven? Focus is what microscopes do it is what telescopes do it is what binoculars do and each time you use one you always have to re focus it. what are you focused on today and what do you need help to focus on?