Aimless in Sanibel
Theme for this Week: Putting Purpose in Your Life
Charles Colson
Wednesday, February 27, 2002
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Aimless in Sanibel
Theme for this Week: Putting Purpose in Your Life
Wednesday, February 27
Key Bible Verse: “Why be … concerned about these things? … make the Kingdom of God your … concern” (Matthew 6: 32-33). Bonus Reading:Matt.6: 24-4
Upscale retirees settling into Florida’s gated communities enjoy the American dream come true: no worries and no work.
Following a predictable pattern, Charlie eagerly trots off to the golf course every morning, ends up on the 19th hole for a few drinks, then heads home to scan the Wall Street Journal. At five o’clock, Charlie’s off to a cocktail party thrown by his neighbors either at their home or at the club. After six weeks or so the hosting cycle repeats.
After a cycle or two, the banal cocktail chatter about weather, neighbors, and taxes is hollowing out Charlie’s brain. He finds his enthusiasm for golf waning, and yearns for the old days when he had to read the Journal.
Charlie’s losing interest in books or current events. And he’s drinking too much. He’s easily angered by incompetent plumbers and yard people. When someone’s car door dings his new Mercedes, he gets really depressed. He wakes up at night wondering how many golf games he has left before he dies.
Sadly, I know a lot of Charlies—once vital, productive people who long for a sense of fulfillment that no amount of pleasure provides.
—Charles Colson in How Now Shall We Live?
My Response: I’d like to upgrade my retirement goals from leisure to …
Thought to Apply: The best kept secret today: people would rather work hard for something they believe in than enjoy a life of pampered idleness.
—John Gardner
Adapted from: How Now Shall We Live? (Tyndale, 1999).
Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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January/February 2002,Vol. 5,No. 1
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Sovereign Lord, please enable me to align my goals with your purposes so that my life will bring You glory.
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