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Dear God, my dad went to the funeral of a friend of his whom you used to, if not change the direction of his life, at least help set the course for a life that you had for him. That was about 30 years ago.

I don’t know which came first, my dad meeting this man or reading his book, but this makes me think about pivotal moments in our lives and how we almost always never see them coming. For example, tonight my wife and I are going to a special event that has to do with the movie we saw on what turned out to be our first date 29 years ago. I say “turned out to be” because that’s how she referred to it this morning. We thought we were just friends. Neither of us thought we would be married to each other 29 years from now.

Things happen to me every day. Some of them stick and some of them don’t. I guess the question I need to ask myself is, am I ready to be part of discerning moment to moment if you have an opportunity for me, or will I just let your presence pass me by and miss you.

Father, I’m grateful I didn’t miss the moment 29 years and seven days ago. I’m grateful for so many things. At the same time, I’m sorry for the opportunities you put in front of me that I failed to do. Help me to be so tuned into you that my life will be exactly what you want it to be.

In Jesus’ name I pray,

Amen