Real Power Point Of The Week

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“The board that you and I play on comes in the shape of a calendar. It is filled with squares, and each square is another day. We live one square at a time.”

John Ortberg

Ortberg goes on to say “ We areall square fillers. Most of us have a

sense that our squares are too chaotic, stuffed with too much activity, but that we’ll get around to what matters most

one day when things settle down.”

He quotes the famous columnist Sydney Harris who wrote: “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by

time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”

A very wise Dutchman named Lewis Smede wrote several decades ago:

“Nobody knows how many squares he or she will get,but each of us must choose how we fill them. You must

choose – not your boss, not your corporation, not your parents, not your friends, not your spouse, not

your kids, not your peers.”“We live one square at a time. As we get older, they seem to get smaller. One of the squares will be terminal. But we do

not know which square it will be .”

There are , Smedes wrote, only two options about the final square. “One is that it turns out to be a coffin. The second possibility is that when we walk into that final square, it isn’t a box at all; it turns out to be a door. The four walls that have confined us melt away, and time is no more. And our real life, far from being over, turns out to have

just begun.”

Ortberg concludes “The Christian gospel comes down to a promise from Jesus that the last option is the real one. The last square is an opening into a new world where

God will set everthing right. One day you will enter it , and so will I.

In the meantime, fill your squares wisely.”

Adapted from John Ortberg’s book, When The Game Is OverIt All Goes Back In The Box