thoughts on...life

I once heard about this guy who wanted a personal mission statement for his life, so he and his wife chose a Scripture verse to describe what they felt was their purpose for living. "How cool is that," I thought to myself, being the sort of person whose favourite collection, besides notes and pictures from kids at the camps I've worked at, has to be quotes and such. (Actually, I love quotes so much, I started a book in which to write my favourite ones, so I really do, in fact, have a quote collection.) Anyhow, I got thinking about mission statements and verses and quotes to live by, but I discovered....it's rather hard to pick just one!

One sentence -- or one verse -- to sum up my reason for living everyday. My reason to go on with the day when I'm tired or sick. Or when there's no cream for my English Breakfast tea, or when there's no English Breakfast tea, for that matter! My reason to be cheerful when I'm having a crummy day at work, my reason for smiling at grouchy customers or at the guy in the Porsche who's puttering along my road doing 30km/hr under the speed limit when I'm late for skate class...okay, you get the idea.

I may never settle on one statement for my life, but all things aside, there's this Bible passage that I just cannot get out of my head...

:: But whatever was to my profit, I now consider loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Philippians 3:7-11 ::

Whoa, that's who I want to be everyday....