Day 286 – Week 41 at a glance
Having a Heart in a Sometimes Heartless World
Scripture focus: That’s how it will be – sudden, total – when the Son of Man is revealed. When the Day arrives and you’re out working in the yard, don’t run into the house to get anything. And if you’re out in the field, don’t go back and get your coat. Remember what happened to Lot’s wife! If you grasp and cling to life on your terms, you’ll lose it, but if you let that life go, you’ll get life on God’s terms. Luke 17:25-33 The Message
This week we’ve discussed six lessons learned from the Pausch family. Today we add a seventh. As Diane Sawyer continued to interview the amazing wife of Randy, Sawyer asked , "What do you think about during this time?"
Jai’s response, "I have everything I need." Stunning. Wouldn’t it be normal to think a wife needed her husband to help raise three small children (especially if she adored her man)? Months earlier, she had whispered to her husband in a moment of heartbreak, "Please don’t die. If you leave, you’ll take all the magic with you!"
As Jai spoke to Sawyer, the twenty-third psalm came rushing into my head (The Message version). God, my shepherd! I don’t need a thing. You have bedded me down in lush meadows, you find me quiet pools to drink from. True to your word, you let me catch my breath and send me in the right direction. Even when the way goes through Death Valley, I’m not afraid when you walk at my side…
Plenty of people talk about their faith – the Pausch family is showing us how to live it.
7 lessons from the Pausch family
Lesson one: Don’t bluff your way through life – think before you act. This isn’t the same as Lesson one (which was originally written as Lesson two) on Page 2.
Lesson two: It’s not the foolish who seek wise counsel – it’s the wise. Learn how to ask for help, and choose your advisors wisely.
Lesson three: Surround yourself with awesome friends, and learn how to appreciate correction.
Lesson four: Develop an understanding of the true meaning of forgiveness, and practice forgiving (and asking for forgiveness) in all your affairs.
Lesson five: Develop an attitude of gratitude – we don’t get what we deserve.
Lesson six: Trials will come – learn how to make lemonade.
Lesson seven: Live life on God’s terms, and he will provide us with everything we need.
Two hundred eighty seven days of desperate devotion. Keep stepping!
Recommended reading: Jeremiah 22, 23 in the morning; 2 Thessalonians 1, Psalm 59 in the evening
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