Learning from Life

The other day Amanda and I were eating at Carlos O'kelly's, one of our favorite restaurants and I happened to mention that I would like to read a book...so we quickly asked for our check and ran over to Hastings. When I have these moments I've got to jump on them because they fade fast. I'm not normally someone who has the desire to read.

I picked out a book called "Choosing to Learn from Life". I have no previous knowledge of this book or its authors it just looked like an interesting book, plus its relatively short (170 pages) and has big words. I think its actually something that is meant to be a small group discussion type book. Anyways, the point is that this book is about how God uses moments in your life to teach and provide opportunities for growth and how we should try to recognize these moments and learn from them.

I'm sure it's no coincidence, but this book seems very fitting for my life right now. Not that there is anything profound in it (I'm only half way through it). It's just that lately my life has just seemed to be so busy and hectic, mostly at work, that I haven't taken time to think about what God could be trying to do in my life. This book as helped me, at least lately, to try to slow things down and observe and listen to what is going on, what God might be try tell me.

We all have those moments in our day to day life that seem to drag on, whether they are good or bad. Well the new prespective that I'm trying to use is this: think of life like you are studying film for football or basketball game and you slow the film down, maybe even pause it, so that you can get a better look at what is going on. I think that is what God does for us and its up to us to recognize those moments and observe and listen to what He has to say. So my charter for the next couple of weeks is to keep this in the back of my mind throughout the day and to try and be more observant and to take advantage of these learning moments.