What can we learn from the upcoming solar eclipse?
While solar eclipses are relatively rare, we experience eclipse much more frequently than we realize. Not in the sky. But in ourselves.
While solar eclipses are relatively rare, we experience eclipse much more frequently than we realize. Not in the sky. But in ourselves.
My second thought was, “The ‘always be there’ things in our life are like that bridge — they can be there one minute, then so suddenly be gone.”
I know my days of life-altering loss certainly aren't unique to me. At some time or another, the fire comes for all of us.
Like the day when Laura learned her husband was suddenly arrested for sexual crimes with underage girls. Or the day Greg and Tammy were informed that their five-year-old daughter had terminal leukemia.
I've also learned to pray... "Lord, help me to do just one day at a time."
Without any time to think about it, only one word came to mind. "Vulnerable. We feel vulnerable." I think that's how many of us are feeling in a world that's "shaking."
Many Kobe tributes have also referenced his darkest chapters. But it's the way Kobe Bryant lived his remaining years that, measured spiritually, may have been his "biggest game."
That's what I want to be. Because an awful lot of people don't really like the kind of Christian they're seeing. And that's a big deal. Because it's keeping them from Jesus.
We knew it was coming. With each passing birthday, we knew a spiritual giant of our lifetime would be in heaven soon. But what now?
If I was back in elementary school, and they asked me to write a composition on "My Summer," I'd have one word on the paper. Amazing.