Crunch time

I think that it's safe to say that we're officially in "crunch time." By we, I mean anyone who is a student or who works on a school-year calendar. For Seniors at Northview, they have something like 35 school days left, which is roughly 7 weeks. The rest have about 8, I think. For me, I have 5 weeks of school left and 6 before I get married. Woooo!!!! In all my excitement about this, I do realize that the next 6 weeks will be the busiest 6 of my life. I've got quite a bit of work to do for camp, school, BCC, and the wedding between now and then. However, these things do not pose an insurrmountable obstacle. I love the movie What About Bob? In the movie, Bob is always trying to take "baby steps", and that's how I'll do life for the next 6 weeks. Baby steps. Little by little. "How do you eat an elephant?" The answer to the old bit of wisdom: "One bite at a time." So as the days go by and anxious people, like myself and most Seniors I know, keep checking off the squares on their calendars, just remember: watch your step, and chew slowly.

Proverbs 6:9 says, "How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?" This proverb asks the question many parents of highschoolers ask every morning around 7 am. "When are you going to get up? When are you going to start getting ready for school?" Tough questions to answer (especially in the week following Spring Break!). Our greasy friend the sluggard lacks enthusiasm and motivation. I think for the most part, most people going through life do as well, at least on some levels. We get up (with much reluctance), go through the same old routine, go home afterwards, watch some tube ( or flat screen if you're trendy enough), then go to bed dreading that when you open your eyes, you have to go through it all over again. Not an attractive way to go through life. This isn't the life that the Bible promotes, however. I think even most Christians miss this! We're all too often so surrounded by those who trudge through life and simply fall in line with the rest. Status quo. Jesus' life was anything but status quo and far from lacking enthusiasm, motivation, zeal, fervor, excitement...(you get the idea). Jealous yet? Maybe that's the motivation you need! It could at least be a starting point! But what's great about Jesus' life is that he invites us to live the same life even today. Jesus says in John 10:10 that "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly", or "...have it to the full". An abundant life is not one in which a snooze button gets regular use. Try reading through the Gospels to see the enthusiasm that Jesus had for life. Be careful, though. You may just end up jealous and do something crazy...like set your alarm 5 minutes earlier to get a start on your day! Enjoy!

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