Life-spark: You can live a richer, stronger, deeper, longer life, starting now! John 1:1
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 as Rhode Island, and swallowed the bobber. His legs were delicious. (Sorry ladies, this is a guy story.)
You can’t swallow a whole life at once. That’s why we have years. And months. And days. Days are lived hours and 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 fourteen-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.
My plan is to break the book down into bite-sized, 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 fourteen-hundred and thirty-seven minutes of that day.
Possible bottom line return on investment: richer, better life. 24/7 … 365 … forever.
One minute Life-action: Read John 1:1-5 and then ask yourself, “What does that mean to me?”