Us

I have a propensity to run with an idea before giving it time to take root. The late Dan Dehan once told a group of us that “truth is never yours until the truth is you” or i.e. until our heart is truly transformed by truth it is at best merely a good opinion.

I love to teach and share what I am learning. Whether that is from a genuine desire to help others or merely my ego seeking approval and praise I do not know I simply know that it is me. As with all who teach I run into the danger of being deceived that simply knowing about something and communicating it well means I possess the truth I teach. Not so.

So I ask myself and the Lord what truth has been shown me that I have taught and yet given the least attention to in my own life? The response in my heart was quick, clear and gentle; the meaning and purpose of life comes down to one word, relationships, first with God and then with others.

In the movie “The Family Man” Nicolas Cage is an unfaithful, ungrateful husband that is given a second chance at life. In one very poignant scene his wife played by Tea Leoni tells him of all the things she could have done in life, all the success, power, and comfort, etc that she could have had but as she says “ I chose us”. She “sacrificed” all of that in favor of the relationship.

I am sure I will have more to say on this later hopefully as a result of living it out.