Author: Paul Silcock

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My Great Experiment Is Built On Faith

Tomorrow I’m going to try an experiment, and I am hoping the results will prove my point. I’m not totally sure that they will and that makes me a little nervous. 

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I am going to conduct this experiment in front of about fifty people. If I don’t get the results I am hoping for, well, the conclusion or the point that I am going to be making will be wrong. 

In fact, I won’t have a point to make! 

I sure hope my plan will work out, but I have no way of knowing beforehand if it will or not. 

This will not be a controlled environment at all … unlike, say, the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). 

WWE fans watch their favourite wrestler go up against an opponent whom they hope will be defeated. As they watch the ebb and flow of the match, they don’t have any idea who is going to win. Sometimes it looks like their wrestler is going to lose because he’s in a choke hold or he’s been hit so hard he can’t stand up. But then the tables turn and he starts to get the better of his opponent.  

It just goes back and forth until the final bell and the winner is revealed. 

In actuality, the wrestlers know from the start who will win. All their holds and hits are just to create tension and excitement; everything’s been choreographed before the match begins.

It’s all rigged to give the fans as much hype and emotion as possible.

I used to do this very thing with my kids when they were young. We would play football in our family room and it would alway be Karlie and Michael against me … and it was tackle. 

In reality, I could tackle them but, of course, they couldn’t tackle me, so I had to fake like they did. 

I would decide in my mind what the final score would be. I would let them get a big lead and then slowly make a comeback. They would get so frantic that I might beat them. 

When I could see they were getting too frantic, I’d let them get a touchdown to give them some hope. Then I would create some tension for them, that they could hardly stand, before letting them win in the end. 

… And, wow, were they ever excited when they won! 

I would just chuckle inside at their joy in defeating Dad in such dramatic fashion. … But I knew the results before we even started. 

Well, I can’t do that with this experiment tomorrow. It has to play out the way it will go. 

I think it will go my way. I hope it will go my way. But if it doesn’t, I will not have a point to make to the fifty people who will be listening to my talk. 

I can hardly wait.

Here’s the thing: I’m pretty sure that my experiment will work; I only have faith to go on. In this world you can try to figure out your future, your eternity. But when it comes down to the day you cross over from life to death, there is only faith that you believe the results will prove you right. God has given us so much help, beauty, wonder, a precise ordered world, a guide book (the Bible) and his Son, Jesus – all to give us confidence in Him. But it will all come down to your faith. Do you believe Him? It’s your big experiment. … My faith is firmly placed in Jesus Christ. 

That’s Life!

Paul

Question: What have you put your faith in? Leave your comments and questions below.

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When The Leader Is Only An Actor

Leaders make good leaders, not drama teachers. Unfortunately, in our country right now we have a drama teacher acting in place of a leader.

Leader is an actor Justin Trudeau

… And it’s not working that well. 

Don’t get me wrong, there are times when a drama teacher can look good as a leader. For years we have watched actors play the role of government official, president, head of state, and they do a very convincing job. 

But that is all well-scripted. 

When the leader of a country is a real drama teacher, it can work well when he has the right lines, and because he can perform in a convincing manner. 

But when the script doesn’t fit, or the other people involved are not following any script of their own, that’s when the drama teacher leader shows to be a bad actor. 

It is not easy to act as a prime minister or president. Maybe one of the best presidential acting jobs I’ve seen in a long-standing role was Martin Sheen in the West Wing. He played a great president in that TV show. He was believable, partly because he is a good actor and partly because he had a great script. 

I never watched the series, but I understand that the actor who played Queen Elizabeth in the series, The Crown, did an outstanding job portraying her. In that case she not only had to act royally, she also had to try to impersonate an actual queen. 

The drama teacher leader in our country might be trying to impersonate his own father from when he stared in the role of Prime Minister of Canada in the sixties and seventies. But I think he’s having some difficulty with the script right now. It’s not suiting his acting style so he’s being forced to act outside his comfort zone. 

Instead of the crowds adoring him as such a great actor, the people of the country are wondering how long his show can stay on the air without getting axed.

Two weeks ago our drama teacher said we are a country that is governed by rules and laws and we will deal with protestors according to our laws. He said that in response to the blockades being put up at railway crossings across the country. 

Activists are protesting a pipeline that is being built across aboriginal land. Some of the protestors don’t even know what will flow through that pipeline, and many of them are professional protestors, to whom the details are not as important as the protest.

Over the last two weeks our drama teacher has not used the laws of the land to stop the protests. It has cost Canadian companies and Canada millions of dollars. It has cost employees’ wages through layoffs. 

But our drama teacher was just caught up in all the drama.

He even gave a detention to the opposition leader, claiming he disqualified himself from attending a meeting because of his speech in Question Period.

All the opposition leader was calling for was for our drama teacher to use the laws and stop the protests. 

I guess the drama teacher liked the opposition leader’s speech after all because now he wants to do exactly what the opposition leader was calling for. 

But like an over budget film, it has now cost Canada hundreds of millions of dollars. 

… I guess we’re all paying to watch this movie?

Here’s the thing: In this world of ours, Satan is leading many astray through a variety of acting roles he plays. Don’t be fooled into believing this actor – what he will cost you is eternity. 

That’s Life!

Paul

Question: Who do you need to see for what he or she really is? Leave your comments and questions below.

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What’s Really Behind Decision-Making

This post is from February 2014. Every now and then I re-post an old article when my schedule is too busy.

The other day my wife, Lily, and I decided to look at living room furniture. We are on a little bit of a roll right now, just completing the final touches of our bathroom renovation that got downgraded to painting and changing a light fixture.  

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Still, being in that remodelling mood, we decided to look at a couch Lily has been eyeing for ten years or more. I think there’s a few reasons we ended up looking at the couch now.  

The first reason is that I saw a rowing machine in a flyer and Lil saw my eyes get big. I also kept the flyer around and made mention of how good the price was.  

When my wife sees that scenario happening it’s like a perfect storm to her. The pressure to purchase comes in waves that are unrelenting. And so to try to divert this storm, she stated that there will be no big purchases made until we get new living room furniture.

I say she’s just a wuss who can’t take a little stormy weather.  

But the other reason we decided to look at furniture is that I’ve made it public that our living room couch is 28 years old. In the last few months, I’ve blogged about it, referenced it in two sermons, and the ultimate, I’ve sat on it.

Our living room furniture has lasted, but all good things come to an end and I think we are at that point with our stuff.  

In no time, I found myself transported to a furniture store that Lily seemed to know quite well. In fact, she seemed to know it better than I expected her to.  

She headed straight to the living room section and, before I could peel myself away from the 70 inch TV that was turned to the Olympics, she was talking to a salesperson.

She had her eyes on a sofa and, even worse, she was sitting down on it. The salesperson was a nice senior lady who seemed very accommodating. She may have recognized a sucker as soon as we entered, or maybe she was just very experienced in her work.

She agreed with us on everything we said so it seemed she was on our side and not working for the store at all.  

We complained at how the love seat price was only one hundred dollars less than the sofa yet it was only two thirds the size – that means two thirds the wood, stuffing and material. What’s with that?

By the end of our visit I wanted to buy the sofa right there. I wasn’t sure whether it was because I liked it, or that I thought Lily liked it, or that I wanted to buy it from the nice lady who seemed like she really wanted to sell it to us.  

I knew, however, we weren’t going to buy that day. Lil would never buy anything without checking prices in two, three or more other stores. We may also have to revisit this store a few times before we make a decision. 

Then again, it may be another 10 years before we actually settle on getting new furniture.

Here’s the thing:  There are many influences on our decision-making. Today I read in my devotions that the heart is most deceitful and incurable (Jeremiah 17:9-10). It’s so easy for our hearts to be influenced away from what God wants. We need to be vigilant at constantly working with the Holy Spirit for control of our heart.

That’s Life!

Paul

Question: What influences you in making decisions? Leave your comment below.

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When Déjà Vu Goes The Opposite Way

Déjà vu – we’ve heard the phrase. Many of us would say we’ve experienced it before. Well, I just experienced the opposite of déjà vu. 

When Deja Vu goes the opposite way

The word “déjà vu” is a French word meaning “seen before”. It’s when you feel like you’ve in some way already lived through what you are experiencing.

The opposite of this is called “jamais vu”. It’s also a French word, but it means “never seen”. It’s the feeling or experience you have when you recognize or know a situation, but it still seems very unfamiliar or unknown.

I’m using this definition loosely, but that’s what I just experienced last night at my niece’s wedding. 

Everything had gone well … the ceremony, the pictures, the spring roll h’or d’oeuvres which were really delicious and hit the spot before dinner. The speeches were meaningful, funny, touching and not too long. The food was delicious. 

Then it came time for the first dance. 

The bride and groom had picked a particular number to dance to and they had worked out some planned moves during the song. 

When that first dance was over, it was time for the bride to dance with her father. 

This is where I experienced jamais vu. 

Watching my brother on the dance floor dancing with his daughter was something I recognized. But with my daughter’s wedding coming up in about four months, it was also very unfamiliar and unknown. 

I watched John move around the dance floor, trying to detect if he had any special skills or moves that I might have to learn for when it was my turn. 

Nope. Nothing.

There was no pre-rehearsed number where he ended up doing the splits or the whole wedding party joined in sync with their choreography. 

There was none of that.

There was just John and Angela moving around the dance floor together, to a familiar song by a member of the rock group, Genesis.

That could have been significant because John loved Genesis and Phil Colins’ drumming. 

It had been suggested that John stop dancing part way through the song and play a drum solo while the song continued. However, this particular song didn’t have a drum solo … and John never sat down behind a drum kit. 

So though I don’t know what to expect when it’s my turn to do the father daughter dance, I now have an example of one that I could pull off without any practice … as long as my daughter doesn’t get any big ideas, or watch too many Youtube videos of father daughter dances. 

I do have one excuse and that is my knee. It’s still been giving me trouble and, unless I wear my brace, I think I may have to roam around the dance floor with my daughter much like my brother did with his daughter. 

… And that will give him deja vu.

Here’s the thing: We can read about heaven in the Bible. There are some passages that even give us a glimpse of what it will be like. The Lord tells us about His presence in heaven, but when we get there, to us it will be jamais vu “never seen”. We may recognize aspects of heaven but it will seem unfamiliar, unknown … but amazing!

That’s Life!

Paul

Question: What have you experienced that seems unfamiliar or unknown to you? Leave your questions and comments below.

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Why You Should Be Tired More Often

Did you know that you can be too tired to worry or be stressed about something? … It happened to me on the weekend.

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TODAY viewers share the funniest spots where their kids have fallen asleep.

When you are tired, you lose some important cognitive abilities … like when I’ve fallen asleep on the couch watching TV and Lily says, “Come on Paul, it’s time for bed.” It makes perfect sense to get up and go to bed – after all, I am sleeping and our bed would be much more comfortable. 

But brain connectors get short-circuited when you are tired. You don’t see things the same way. You don’t think rationally at all. 

When Lily tells me to get off the couch, my brain tells me that the show is not over. Truthfully, I’m not watching the show – I’m asleep! My brain tells me that I’ll miss something, but actually I’ve already missed a lot of things. 

Your brain doesn’t reason well when you are tired; you accept things the way they are.

So sometimes I’ve stayed on the couch, sleeping in some weird position that I pay for in the morning … all because my brain makes me think that this is better than getting up and going immediately to bed.

I’ve been told – though I can’t verify it to be true – that you study better when you’re tired because your brain will more readily and easily accept the information you put into it. When you are alert, you question the information or challenge it. … Just make sure the information you are studying is correct or you will do brutally on your exam!

That brings me to this weekend …

Normally, when I get a phone call late in the evening, I’m immediately concerned even before I answer the call. But on Saturday night I had already nodded off when my cell phone started ringing. 

I just instinctively reached for it.

It was my guest speaker for our church service the next day. Very quickly he told me that his plane had been grounded and he would not be able to make it to speak at our church in the morning. 

Now, normally that would send me into a little bit of a panic. What will I do? What should I speak on? How can I possibly prepare something in time? 

But I was tired and I just accepted the information, jumped into bed and went to sleep. 

No panic, no stress, no worry. I was so tired that my brain didn’t challenge the information. It just accepted it. 

In the morning, I remembered I had spoken at a men’s breakfast a few weeks earlier. I pulled out that talk, spent about forty-five minutes editing it, and was ready to preach. 

No stress, no worry. … Man I’m glad I was tired when I got that phone call!

Here’s the thing: There was one more thing I did do that night as my head hit the pillow. I prayed and asked God to somehow give me a sermon or something to preach. And very quickly in the morning the idea of preaching that men’s message popped into my head. It seemed like God was saying, “Here you go”. It would have made more sense to be stressed and start to work on something right away. But really we should rely more on God to supply our need … and maybe be more tired, so we don’t stress or worry about how He’s going to come through.

That’s Life!

Paul

Question: What are you stressed about right now that you should ask God for? Leave your questions and comments below.

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Why Inspiration Can Cost You Big Time

We get inspired by watching someone do something, but our inspiration is not always well-founded.

Inspiration can cost you

You know this is true – just think about how many times you have watched a TV show where they have said, “Don’t try this at home.” They sometimes even go further by telling you that their stunts were done by professionals and safety precautions were taken.

You know when they say all that that somewhere someone is going to get all excited, all inspired and try to reenact what they saw.

… As an aside, I went to a hockey game last night and at one point the puck was flipped high in the air in front of the goalie. A defensemen jumped to knock the puck down, but only got a piece of it, causing the puck to unfortunately fall behind the goalie into the net. 

Well, with absolutely no intention of repeating that goal, I did the same thing when I was playing early this morning. I couldn’t believe it! It happened exactly like it had the night before, only it was by my hand this time. 

I certainly wasn’t inspired by the defensemen’s feat to want to repeat it. 

I remember watching a commercial once when my son was about 10 years old. The commercial was for a piece of exercise equipment called, “the AbDolly”.

I was in a goofy mood at the time and thought I could make one. My inspiration fired up my son as well. 

Soon we were off to the hardware store, looking for items we could use to build our own AbDolly. About an hour later we came home with our purchases and got to work. 

When it was finished it didn’t really look anything like the AbDolly we’d seen on TV. I never used it for exercise but, on occasion, we have put it under really heavy items to move them around our basement. 

Oh, and the cost to make it was probably more than buying the AbDolly itself. … But we had fun.

The other day I was looking at purchasing a stand-up desk. They cost a lot of money, so I thought that I would look online for a DIY version of a stand-up desk. 

I found several – most were ridiculous – but there was a simple version that I thought I could make. 

I told Lily and she answered, “Don’t you dare!” (maybe she was remembering the AbDolly).

I replied, “I’m going to price this thing out”, and off I went to the hardware store. 

Meanwhile Lily went online to find me a decent stand-up desk. 

I had a price list, and recorded the cost of all the items I needed. When I got home I added them up and the DIY stand-up desk would cost me about $250.  

But from Lily’s list I found I could purchase a stand-up desk, that I could electronically control the height of, for about the same money as making a stationary one. 

This time my inspiration to make a stand-up desk didn’t get the better of me. Wisdom prevailed and I purchased one online. 

Here’s the thing: There are a lot of things that can inspire you, but from God’s perspective are not in your best interest. We can get all excited and inspired even though it is costly or there is danger involved. When we find ourselves in that situation, take time, weigh the dangers and count the cost. Then make the wise decision: listen for what God would have you do. 

That’s Life!

Paul

Question: What has got you all inspired right now? Leave your questions and comments below.

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Knowing The Outcome, I Was Surprised At My Engagement

When you know the outcome, your engagement with the subject changes drastically.

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You may watch a program on television that you’ve seen before. You may not have seen it for a while, and may not remember all the details, but what you do remember enables you to watch the program differently.

You might watch it while you are doing something else so that you are not fully engaged with the program. After all, you know the story line. 

Then there are times when we might try to avoid knowing the outcome so that we can watch it after the fact but as if we were taking it all in live.

There are some movies, however, that you may have never seen but their outcome is so predictable that you know in advance how they will end. 

I’m thinking specifically of some of the Hallmark romance movies my wife watched over Christmas. I’d watch them for less than five minutes and know what guy was going to marry the girl in the story. 

In those cases I just turned around and found something else to do. 

But the other day I watched the last three minutes of a hockey game I had seen the day before.

It was a close game, a game that mattered to me. I remembered how tense I was as the other team pulled their goalie and had a man advantage. They hemmed my team in their own end and, with each shot, there was a fear that it would weave its way through the crowd of players on the ice into the back of the net. 

At any moment I feared the game would be tied up and sent into overtime. 

When I watched the game I couldn’t turn away; I couldn’t do something else. I was all in, fully engaged in the play.

In the end, my team kept the puck out and with about 4 or 5 seconds left to go in the game they got an empty-netter to seal their victory.

The next day when I watched that last part of the game for the second time, of course I didn’t watch with the same emotion. I knew how things turned out so I wasn’t as tense. 

When the Leafs couldn’t get the puck out of their end, I knew that it didn’t end badly for them. But surprisingly, there was still some emotion and engagement with those last few moments of the game.

I noticed the times when they could have cleared the puck and reduced the pressure, but for whatever reason it didn’t happen. 

I found I analyzed the play more than when I watched it the first time. I even had a few suggestions for the team watching them play the second time around. 

What surprised me was that I was as interested in watching the game the second time around as I was seeing it the first time. … I just had a different perspective. 

Here’s the thing: When you place your faith in Jesus Christ you know what is going to happen at the end of your life on earth. There is nothing up in the air, no fear of a sudden change. But you still live your life to the full, engaged in every moment and detail you experience. It’s just that the outcome is certain.

That’s Life!

Paul 

Question: Do you have the outcome of your life settled? Leave your comments and questions below.

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Go All The Way In What You Do

If you are going to do something, or be involved in something, you should go all the way.

Go All The Way

You should be all in.

When you do something halfway or half-heartedly others can tell … and you know yourself that you didn’t put the effort in that was really required.

This applies to individuals and groups, teams as well as businesses, organizations and network television. 

One of the highlight events on television every year is the Super Bowl. 

Even people who don’t watch football, don’t care about football, and don’t know who’s playing in the game still watch the Super Bowl.

There were over 60,000 people in the stadium in Miami on Sunday night to watch the game. There was an estimated 100 millions viewers watching the game on television.

And even in Canada it was a huge draw. About 4.5 million people in our country tuned in to watch the spectacle called the Super Bowl.

I, for one, had a group of hungry … well, I shouldn’t say fans, but hungry people over to watch on our TV. And one of the things we were looking forward to seeing were the commercials. 

Companies were paying about 5 million dollars for a 30 second commercial during the Super Bowl game. And when you spend that much money on air time, you are going to spend a wad of cash on making that commercial spectacular.

I even had little bingo cards made up for my guests to daub when a commercial for a certain product with a particular celebrity occupied a square on their card.

It was perfect for my group of less-than-eager football fans. 

But not in Canada you say? 

For some reason the CRTC and CTV decided they would run Canadian commercials in place of the high priced star-studded commercials in the US. 

CTV didn’t get into selling that kind of commercial space. They just ran regular commercials. In fact, they didn’t even have that many commercials. More than anything else, they ran ads for shows on their network.

If you have an audience who’s all geared up for a big game with all the hoopla – like big expensive commercials – then you should go all in.

Do it up right! 

You either get advertisers to make interesting and outlandish commercials or you just show the ones that they are showing south of the border. 

CTV and TSN should have done it right!  

I had 10 people with bingo cards and I barely could get one person yelling bingo the whole game. 

I went all in: I had the cards, explained the game, got prizes for the winners … and then we watched how Downey can make sweaters soft when you wash them in their detergent. 

I’m not buying it. I don’t mean that I don’t believe Downey will make a sweater softer, I’m just not going to buy the product. 

When a network buys the rights to air something as big as the Super Bowl, they should fight the CRTC to the limit so they can go all in and broadcast all the Super Bowl goodness. 

Oh, and by the way, the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 31-20.

Here’s the thing: When Christ came to earth, He was all in. He left all He had in heaven, took on human frailties, and went all the way to die on the cross for our sins. Jesus was all in. In exchange He calls us to be fully committed to Him. Don’t be half-hearted with Christ; be all in. 

That’s Life!

Paul

Question: What is your commitment level to Christ right now? Leave your comments and questions below.

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I Will Catch Up This Week

I am playing catch up this week, and it feels pretty good.

Catch up this week

Some people are naturally able to stay on top of most things in their lives; others always seem to be falling behind.

The other day I was wondering if there were outward signs to identify which category people fall into. Like, for instance, when you see a car that has a foot of snow on its roof and it hasn’t snowed in two days, that might be a sign that the owner doesn’t stay on top of his work. 

… Or the person who has a snow covered car, except for half of the front windshield on the driver’s side – that might tell you that the owner also doesn’t take the time to clear his desk at the end of the work day.

That method might not be a consistent telltale sign because I don’t do either of those snow abominations, yet I do find myself falling behind in the work before me.

This week I had some time in my schedule to catch up on things that have been building up on my desk.

Those things are mostly paper, but represented in that paper are actions that I need to take, responses I need to make, suggestions I need to consider, and requests I need to say “no” to. How all this manifests itself is in paper strewn over my desk.  

What happens to me is that I keep up with the duties that are before me, but when there is no clear path forward on an item, that paper can settle in a pile. I will need to do something to address that item, but I don’t need to do it “now” as I have other things I feel are more pressing. 

So “later” becomes the go-to for these demands that don’t have a date or time attached to them. 

They’re nebulous and the paper on my desk becomes this clutter that collects together … much like the problem we have with plastic gathering together in the oceans. The plastic enters the ocean separately but somehow, over time, it is attracted to other plastic and they gather in large ocean garbage patches.

This is exactly what happens on my desk. Each piece of paper is placed on my desk in a specific spot, entirely independent of any other paper that might be there already. 

But, over time – in a much shorter time than the garbage in the ocean – it accumulates and forms piles that spread out and begin to take over the entire surface of my desk. I then have to sift through the paper and deal with each piece. 

I did this yesterday and, I have to say, my desk is looking really good and completely free of paper. 

Now my biggest concern is how to keep that paper from coming back. That question I haven’t solved.

Here’s the thing: In our lives we can clean up really well, get our acts together, correct wrongs, make  amends. We can restore and repair relationships. We can do right things. But like the paper on my desk, how do we keep our lives clean? We might have a plan that works for a while, but old habits and patterns tend to sneak up on us. We find the same messes start to pile up like they did before. Our only hope for cleaning our lives and keeping them clean is God. He makes us clean when we receive Christ’s sacrifice for our mess. He then keeps us clean by giving us power through the Holy Spirit to make wise decisions. 

That’s Life!

Paul

Question: What needs a good cleaning in your life? Leave your comments and questions below.

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Everything Changed In An Instant

It doesn’t take long for things to go wrong. In an instant everything can change. 

In An Instant

One minute you’re talking, laughing, having fun, then, without warning, talking stops and you are panicked.

I look back and it’s happened many times in my life.  

Four years ago I was driving to my cottage, it was completely dark, my wife and I were talking, and listening to music. Then, in a split second, a deer ran by the corner of our car and we hit it. 

There was no warning, no time to react. Everything changed that instant. 

I remember 8 years ago, I was playing hockey, feeling fine. After the game I sat down in the dressing room and, all of a sudden, I didn’t feel fine anymore. 

Then 4 weeks ago, Lily and I were getting ready for bed, and we got a phone call that changed everything. 

It was our daughter, Karlie, calling to tell us she was engaged. Well, that kind of news changes everything!

Sometimes a sudden change is not welcomed, but like with our daughter’s news, Lil’s and my conversation suddenly changed in a joyful way.

One thing a sudden change does is it turns you emotionally 180 degrees. You can go from flying high to down in the dumps; you can go from complete exhaustion to totally energized.

When things change suddenly, our response time to it is immediate.

Last night I attended the Kingston Frontenacs hockey game as I usually do on Friday nights. They were playing the first place team in the other conference.

Through two periods they were playing like they were on top of the standings. Though I thought the other team seemed much bigger and stronger than our team, the Fronts were handling them really well.

They had scored some pretty goals and were leading 3-0. You could feel the energy in the arena; you could see the focus our guys had as they played their hearts out. 

Early in the third period we scored again to make it 4-0.

That should have been a premonition – a 4 goal lead is never a good thing. I remember the Toronto Maples Leafs had a 4 goal lead in the seventh game of the playoffs one year … and they lost the game and the series in overtime. 

Well last night, though it wasn’t a playoff game, we witnessed a similar comeback. In about 10 minutes, the opposing team scored 4 times to tie the game. As the time was winding down, it looked like overtime was a guarantee. 

With 30 seconds to go in the game, Kingston had the puck deep in the opposition’s end. 

But with 14 seconds left, there was a face-off in Kingston’s end. They lost the face-off and the puck stayed in their end.  

Just a few seconds left and they would get at least one point and a possible two points if they scored in overtime. 

And then in an instant – 2.5 seconds left to be exact – everything changed. There would be no guaranteed point, no overtime: a fifth goal against Kingston and it was over.

A heartbreaker for sure. Everything changed in an instant.

Here’s the thing: Anything can happen in an instant. When it does, it changes everything. Christ will come back one day and it’s going to happen in an instant. Everything will change. That change will be amazing for some and horrifying for others. Be sure you are set up for a joy-filled change and not a heartbreaker. Place your faith in Jesus Christ. 

That’s Life!

Paul

Question: What memory do you have of an instant that brought you great joy? Leave your comments and questions below.