Daily Life to the Full

14. November 2007 by BruceSmith.

Good morning bloggers! I wanted to point you to a couple of helpful tools today. It seems that many of us continually fight the battle with daily life. While we know what we believe, and while we know in Whom we find our hope, daily life has a way of crowding out our deepest longings. The tyranny of the urgent pushes our spiritual ambitions off the radar all too frequently.

In an effort to aid you in a very practical way I would like to point you to two resources today. The first focuses you upon the big picture and demonstrates why it is so critical to keep the big picture outlook in front of us at all times. The big picture sets the course for the daily run, after all.

This first resource is actually a presentation I gave a few weeks ago. The message, entitled “Life to the Full” (www.soulstormsite.com/assets/multimedia/Life_to_the_Full-48kbps.mp3) is an attempt to demonstrate how we all tend to thirst for the “Beverly Hills” lifestyle, why it is alluring, how it captivates (deceives) us, and what the outcome is. The message looks closely at the lives of some of the super famous and super rich, demographic studies on American life (consumerism, mental health, …), and chronicles how losing focus on what is critical to living a full life can have devastating effect.

In the end, the presentation “Life to the Full” offers us the hope found in restructuring our lives around a Game Plan that works. The presentation is a call for us to build our lives around a handful of principles which lead us to much fuller, joy filled, and contented lives. Take time out of your lunch schedule today or tomorrow, or during your morning routine, and give it a listen. Here is the link again:

www.soulstormsite.com/assets/multimedia/Life_to_the_Full-48kbps.mp3

If you have trouble with getting the link to your browser, just go to optimuslife.org, click on the media page and then click on the tab entitled “Life to the Full”.

The second resource for helping you live your daily life to the full is a book by author Jay Payleitner. The book, which is entitled The One Year Life Verse Devotional, is a compilation of one pagers which highlights biblical verses which have inspired people to live the life God offers. Chuck Colson, Kurt Warner, Josh McDowell, James Dobson, Francine Rivers, Elizabeth Elliot, Joni Eareckson Tada, …and an unknown by the name of Bruce Smith (November 13 entry) are all featured in the book which has just been released.

I think you will find this book a great daily tool to get you quickly focused on what matters and why it matters, and I believe you will find direction and hope for the daily battle. The link to purchase the book at Amazon.com is below:

http://www.amazon.com/Year-Life-Verse-Devotional-Book/dp/1414312628

In the near future, we will make the book available at Optimuslife.org

Stay blogged in over the next couple of days, as I am excited to be tackling some issues which I believe are of great relevance to all of us. Particularly, if you have ever asked along with the rest of us, “Why am I not fixed yet?” or “Why am I so messed up after all these years?” then tune in Friday for the second issue of Dear Bruce Weekly.

Grace, Peace, and Hope in your daily life,

Bruce Smith

optimuslife.org

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