How time flies....

Chris and I are off to Mexico City today for our youngest son's graduation from his internship in the missions/leadership academy called TwentyFourSeven. It's so hard to believe that our youngest is already an adult (he'll be 22 in September) and that he's coming home engaged. It seems like just yesterday that he was a cute toddler who amused us with his antics regularly.

Life can be like that - one of the movies coming out today, Click (at least from the previews I've seen) is all about a "universal remote" that enables the user to fast-forward through life. It may make a fun movie with Adam Sandler, but from my perspective, life is already going fast enough with a remote. In fact, I've missed far too much of my kids, my wife, and my friends in the past because I was too busy with "important ministry stuff" to slow down and enjoy the journey.

I'm determined not to do that anymore. I encourage you, my CLC family, to slow down this summer (and fall and winter and spring, for that matter) and savor each moment: cry through the bad times; laugh through the good times; but whatever you do, live life in the moment - because you don't get a second chance.

Chris and I will be meeting our future daughter-in-law, Sol, for the first time, too - so I'm excited about that. We've joked lately that our family will eventually look like the United Nations, with Chad engaged to a beautiful young woman whose mother is VietNamese, Brent engaged to a Latino from Mexico City, and Jen moving to South Africa for a 3-year assignment - we're doing our part for missions! I hope to have some pictures for you upon our return.

So that's my 2-cents for today: don't let life pass you by - enjoy the moment!
Jerry