Burning Vapor

The American Dream

One afternoon I was having a conversation with a friend of mine over lunch . He was talking about how we waste our lives in America pursuing things that really don’t matter. With tears in his eyes he said, “I’m 63 years old and I know I’m getting closer and closer to the end of my life. I need to make it count for something. I need to give my life so children who have nothing can have something. That they can have a hope and a future. That they can hear about Jesus! I need to make it count”.

I was so humbled to hear the urgency in his voice. This is a man who is still adopting little girls from 3rd world countries because he wants to give them hope so bad. Most people I know over 50 start dreaming about retirement and settling to ‘just be grandparents’. But here was a man who hears that there is 143 million children who have nothing and wanted to lay it all down for the sake of the Gospel in the lives of children. I was so choked up watching such raw passion from such a godly man that I needed to do something for me to process it. I put together a video called ‘The American Dream’. This is for you Dale.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 at 2:37 am and is filed under GGI, Gospel, James 1:27, Missions. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.