What Matters Most?
It's been two months since Ignite 2005/06 was disbanded and things have changed for all of us. Some Igniters find themselves back in downtown Toronto seeing what urban mission is like outside of the safety of Ignite, others are back home to work and save cash for school or whatever's next, still others have moved to new places and on to different things.
Personally, I find myself missing the days "forced" discipline. I miss having the built-in accountability 24-7 that challenged and encouraged me to get up early and read the Bible, spend time in prayer, to excercise and eat healthy, the encouragement and direction to engage in meaningful relationships and be a servant to those around me.
Life on my own is much more difficult.
At the beginning of our year together, back in September 2005, we sang a Billy Joel song, "Time to Remember" and though the team mocked the song and dreaded the sound of it after that (it was a song that just got stuck in our heads), it's message rings with truth for us today.
"This is the time to remember, for it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto, 'cause we won't all though we'll want to. This is the time, but time is gonna change."
It was easy to moan and rail against having to be in our rooms by 11pm, or up at 3am for prayer, but these are the times I find myself missing most now. I have been realising what is really important in life. It was the things that matter most that I learned through Ignite.
Our days on this earth are limited. As the Psalmist wrote: "For we are like a breath of air; our days are like a passing shadow." (Ps. 144:4) But, we have a choice of what we want to do with them. We are only young once, and as Colonel Max Ryan once said, "It is not being old or even dying that I fear most, but being young and having done nothing."
So, if you have never taken the time to do a year on a program like Ignite, what are you waiting for? Carpe Dium! Seize the day! Don't let this time pass you bye. Your youth won't last forever; as the saying goes, why not "give a year to get a life?"
"Honor and enjoy your Creator while you're still young,
Before the years take their toll and your vigor wanes,
Before your vision dims and the world blurs
And the winter years keep you close to the fire." (Ecclesiastes 12:1)
Personally, I find myself missing the days "forced" discipline. I miss having the built-in accountability 24-7 that challenged and encouraged me to get up early and read the Bible, spend time in prayer, to excercise and eat healthy, the encouragement and direction to engage in meaningful relationships and be a servant to those around me.
Life on my own is much more difficult.
At the beginning of our year together, back in September 2005, we sang a Billy Joel song, "Time to Remember" and though the team mocked the song and dreaded the sound of it after that (it was a song that just got stuck in our heads), it's message rings with truth for us today.
"This is the time to remember, for it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto, 'cause we won't all though we'll want to. This is the time, but time is gonna change."
It was easy to moan and rail against having to be in our rooms by 11pm, or up at 3am for prayer, but these are the times I find myself missing most now. I have been realising what is really important in life. It was the things that matter most that I learned through Ignite.
Our days on this earth are limited. As the Psalmist wrote: "For we are like a breath of air; our days are like a passing shadow." (Ps. 144:4) But, we have a choice of what we want to do with them. We are only young once, and as Colonel Max Ryan once said, "It is not being old or even dying that I fear most, but being young and having done nothing."
So, if you have never taken the time to do a year on a program like Ignite, what are you waiting for? Carpe Dium! Seize the day! Don't let this time pass you bye. Your youth won't last forever; as the saying goes, why not "give a year to get a life?"
"Honor and enjoy your Creator while you're still young,
Before the years take their toll and your vigor wanes,
Before your vision dims and the world blurs
And the winter years keep you close to the fire." (Ecclesiastes 12:1)
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