Missed Opportunities!

Have you ever thought about lost opportunities?  Things that present themselves to you and at the moment you turn it down, ignore it, or walk away from it.  Something presents itself and later you think, “if only….”
 
Here are just a few of my own personal financial lost opportunities:

• Using my Mickey Mantle baseball cards as “clackers” on my bicycle spokes;
• Spending silver dollar coins and not saving them;
• Turning down an investment opportunity that eventually would have been a gold mine.  Grrr…

Then there are more tragic lost relationship opportunities:

• Waiting until I was 55 to tell my Dad, “I love you.”
• Waiting too long to say, “I’m sorry” even when I didn’t have anything to apologize for;
• Failing to witness to the resurrection of Jesus Christ because I lacked courage.

Often opportunities present themselves only once.  All too often we need to instantaneously make a decision to do something with it.  There will be times when we choose poorly.  It’s just part of our human condition.
 
In the world today, how do we know what to do with things and relationships that present themselves?  Here’s my advice---pray for wisdom!
 
Love you all,
Pastor Allan
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