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DAY 7<\/span>:\u00a0 “LIFE TO THE FULL”<\/span><\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nI am increasingly aware of how fast the years are passing.\u00a0 Just last week, while sitting with my family around the dinner tale, we celebrated my mother’s ninetieth birthday, and I turned 61.\u00a0 We smiled at each other, eyes moist, grateful for the years shard together.\u00a0 And yet, I was keenly aware we will not live forever.<\/span><\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nIn my current freshman class at Mercer University title “Composing the Self,”\u00a0 my students spend a semester reviewing the first eighteen years of their lives.\u00a0 Yesterday, we read a poem by Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day,” which depicts a young woman resting in a lush green pasture as she encounters a small grasshopper attached to her sweater.\u00a0 Holding the small insect tenderly\u00a0 in her hand, she gazes into it’s “enormous and complicated \u00a0eyes” and realizes that the insect will live only a few more weeks until summer turns to fall.\u00a0 As the grasshopper snaps her wings and floats away, the girl whispers, “Doesn’t everything die at last and too soon”\u00a0 Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”<\/span><\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nthis is the most important question for us all: my ninety-year old mother, her sixty-one-year old son, my twenty-three-year old daughter, my college freshman students.<\/span><\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nSometimes a singer has only one song, a preacher one sermon, a writer one book and a prophet one vision.\u00a0 Life is drawn into narrow and intense focus.\u00a0 Now I know that my one question for each person I meet is “What is your dream for your one precious life”\u00a0 Each answer will shape the course of history.<\/span><\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nFather, inspire me to know how to live the years that are before me. Amen…Scott walker<\/span><\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nDAY 8:<\/span> WORKING FOR FREEDOM & JUSTICE”<\/span><\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nYesterday, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed, and as I walked to meet a recent Mercer University graduate for lunch, I asked God for the gift of encouragement.<\/span><\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nAlicia is a brillant young woman who attended law schoo for several semesters.\u00a0 However, she increasingly felt that this course of study was\u00a0 not joining her unique talents to the world’s greatest need.\u00a0 Perplexed and discouraged, she read about a new program started by the Institue of Life Purpose called Service First, which connects Mercer’s graduates to international service projects for one year.<\/span><\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nAlicia applided to Service First and was sent to teach English as a second language to elementary and high school \u00a0students in Thailand.\u00a0 For nine months, she lived in Bangkok and experienced a world she had not know.\u00a0 She soon realized that her deepest desire was to help political refugees, women abused by sex trafficking, and those who are most marginalized\u00a0\u00a0and helpless .<\/span><\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nAs alicia talked about his new clarification of her life-dream, I felt my mood life.\u00a0 My spirit and Alicia’s spirit and God’s Spirif were working together.\u00a0 I saw how the opportunity to spend one year beyond college discovering “the world’s greatest hunger” was empowering a young woman to work for goodness and justice long after my life is a dim memory.<\/span><\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nThis morning, as I wrote a letter of recommendation for Alicia to attend a graduate school specialize in international aid and human rights issues, I smiled.\u00a0 God did grant my prayer for encouragement, and I was the one most uplifted.<\/span><\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\n\u00a0 ….Father, may we believe that all things, work together for good Amen<\/span><\/address>\nScott Walker<\/span><\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nFrom Rhon:\u00a0 I hope all that have read this marvelous story of Scott Walker’s,\u00a0 that I\u00a0have had in my column for the last few weeks….\u00a0will pray about what you truly want in life !\u00a0 Wishing all reading this a peaceful day in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ…Rhon<\/p>\n
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