Success -or- Significance

Maybe this is not an either/or proposition. What if it's more like both/and?

Done. It is finished. My son Andrew's high school career. He graduated last night with an honors diploma and as a member of Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica ( Spanish National Honor Society). Thank you God! It was a happy sad night.

Time marches on.

And as it does he becomes less and less my son and more and more God's. Andrew can get along fine without me now, but not without God. Jesus, I am asking you to give him a wild, dangerous, wonderful encounter with you. One that makes him pursue you and significance for your kingdom over success (at least as the world defines it).

As the superintendent of Jackson Schools spoke last night she cited a study of 1,500 college graduates. They were put into 2 categories: group A said they were pursuing wealth first and would do something they loved later in life (this group had 1,245 in it). Group B (255 strong) were going for their passions right off the bat. At the end of 20 years there were 101 millionaires.........................and only one of them came from group A!

Isn't that incredible?!?

Not really. Over 2,000 years ago a man gave the same advice. It was even put in a book for us to read. It's a way that is upside-down, inside-out, inverted, backward, upturned, chaotic and confusing:

• find life by losing yours
• live by dying

Andrew my son, my prayer for you is that you continue to follow Jesus of Nazareth and find "life that is truly life."