I started Chasing Daylight by Erwin McManus last night. I’ve made a commitment to take notes and highlight stuff that sticks out to me, and by blogging those thoughts it kind of forces me to keep up with the book. I tend to jump from book to book.
I don’t know what good stuff lies ahead in chapter 1, so we’ll see if there is a part 2 (check back!)…
- Chapter 1 so far deals with choices and what we do with the moments that we are given.
- There are things that must be done today, things that you and you alone were created to accomplish. Some of us are wasting our time burning daylight when what we need to be doing is seizing the power of every moment.
[This is how I feel in my current ministry/career “moment”] - Somehow we all know that to play it safe is to lose the game. By definition an adventure is “an undertaking or enterprise of a hazardous nature.” In other words, it comes at great risk and at significant cost!
- Moments are as numerous as the stars in the sky and the sands in the sea, and any of them could prove to be your most significant divine moments. Within those moments, a handful will become the defining moments in your life. However mundane a moment may appear, the miraculous may wait to be unwrapped within it.
- When you seize divine moments, you instigate an atomic reaction. You become a human catalyst a divine impact. The result can be earthshaking! [Oh, how I want to be a human catalyst…a divine impact!] Continue reading “Chasing Daylight Ch. 1 Thoughts (Part 1)”