A Book of Life
I caught a bullfrog once. I used a fishing pole with monofilament line. On the end of the line was a huge red and white, tennis-ball-sized ball, called a bobber, with a hook attached to it. I cast the bobber out in front of the frog and wiggled it. He looked at the wiggling bobber, and looked, and looked and finally leaped. He opened his mouth as big a Rhode Island, and swallowed the bobber. His legs were delicious. (Sorry, ladies, this is a guy story. I’m hopelessly guy – that’s spelled g.u.y.)
You can’t swallow a whole life at once. That’s why we have years. And months. And days. Days are lived hours, minutes at a time. Fourteen-hundred and forty minutes in a day.
I’ve been thinking about how to invest three minutes every day or so in an enterprise that will bring wealth to the other thirteen-hundred and thirty-seven minutes of that day.
Here’s the prospectus: There’s this book about how to live deeper, higher, fuller, sweeter, truer, richer than you’ve ever lived before. It stands out, even in an amazing library of 66 Books about Being Alive. It’s a Book of Life. (See yesterday’s blog about the first three words in the book.)
My plan is to break the book down into bite-size, three-minute bits of thinking and learning about aliveness. Each section, based on just a few words from the book of John, will end with a personal invitation to you – a challenge to invest one minute in thinking about a life-question, a life-concept, a life-challenge, or a life-action.
My hope is that each three minute investment will yield a rich return on the other thirteen-hundred and thirty-seven minutes of that day.
Possible bottom line return on investment: Richer, better life. 24/7 … 365 … forever.