LeBron, Free Agency and Life

Free Agency

We live in a world of free agents. Pick the place, team, city that give you every thing you want. LeBron simply made the decision that put the "king" in the position to get him what he does not have - a championship. It was all for him. Is anyone committed to anything anymore. Is anything worth fighting for. Can a person work hard and not win the championship and still make a difference. Does everyone have to have a place that gives them everything they want. Working hard and building something is hard work that is rewarding even if it does not bring the championship. What is your Cleveland and what is your Miami? What is in your life that might never give you a championship but you will make a huge impact. You can "sacrifice" and chase the championship that is for YOU. Commit to something. Fight for it. You might not ever win the coveted ring but you will make an impact bigger than a ring. Yea, I'm disappointed in LeBron's decision to go to Miami but I'm not an NBA fan or watched a whole game since Michael Jordan. Just wish people would stick things out when it is not going their way. It's so easy to move on. It is happening in families, sports, pastorates, jobs and more. Free agency is the American way of chasing the American dream.

Tomorrow a view from the other side.

Dry Spells

It appears that more and more people are determining that they are in a dry spell, valley or some uneventful place by some other name. Life is about highs and lows, good and bad, easy and difficult, dry and wet or happy and sad. Many seem to think that when life is not full of exciting emotion that everything is bad. But is it? Is it not in these times that one looks more insightfully into their past as well as their future. Realizing that some decisions in the past might be the reason they are experiencing this particular valley. Realizing if something does not change then nothing is going to change. During these times we seem to have a heightened sense of where we are. Are these not the times when God is most findable in who He really is? Are these not the times when we really realize where our hope is found? Are these not the times that determine who we really are and who we really trust? It is not the emotions of Christianity or life that I put my trust. It is in Christ and the truth of His Word that I have to trust no matter how I feel. Is there anything else one can trust 100%? Valleys are separated by mountains, so if one wants to get to the next mountaintop you have to go through the next valley. Keep your head up and climb my friend. (Read Psalm 42 and 63)