I have to interrupt my normal blog to tell you about the last 10 days, there were two great events that added significant value to my life. First, my Grandma, Ida Lentsch, turned 90. I traveled back to Minnesota for her birthday party. It was a wonderful time to visit with my 19 cousins and my aunts and uncles. It was a reminder that God blesses those that are faithful for a 1000 generations and that life is truly short so why not live it to the fullest? Even to the extent that God wants us to live it. Before the foundation of the earth, He designed me for this generation, this family, this location, this job, this life. I thought about living 90 years and praising God for the blessings yet to come. Do you live the life God designed for you? Or do you carry around un-forgiveness and strongholds that keep you bound in the past?
I was also fortunate enough to get to see the woman that has been mentoring me for the last 8 years yet she doesn’t even know I exist. Are you asking yourself how in the world could I be mentored by someone I don’t even know? Well for all you Texan’s her name is familiar, it is Beth Moore and she is a wonderful bible study teacher. I felt like Zacchaeus in the Sycamore tree, I did not act quickly enough so I had to sit in the chapel but she promised to come and visit those of us in the cheap seats and she did. She gave us 2 minutes, immediately she was swarmed by Beth Moore groupies, so in order to just get a glimpse of the woman I have come to adore, I had to stand on the pew. Grandma would have been mortified that I acted that way in church, but I had gotten up at 6 am on a Saturday and driven 3 hours just to hear her, get a glimpse of her and learn from her. I accomplished it all. I actually drove 6 hours round trip, I just got a glimpse of her so I know she is real, and I learned how Zacchaeus felt climbing up the tree that day, but Beth didn’t ask to come to my house for lunch! J
She spoke for 3 hours in another room so I got the big screen version but once again, she captured my heart and my mind. God speaks through her with great passion and persistence and I long to love His word with the enthusiasm she displays. Her latest book Get out of that Pit is inspirational in holding captive our thought life and our action life in order to live the life God designed for us.
In reflection, I thought my latest 2 experiences really do help me keep life in perspective, it keeps me striving to live long enough to have an impact on more than one generation and it keeps me striving to be the compassionate people person God designed me to become. Join me next week as I lead us down the path on becoming a people-minded person.