Sometimes in life I find myself consumed with the daily responsibilities that surround me to the extent that I lose focus of what really matters. At the end of the day when I reflect on what occurred, I wonder if anyone was drawn closer to Christ today on account of me. As I grow older the busyness of life in switching from one role to the next (husband, employee, student, father) often steals my focus away from the eternal and to the temporal.

It seems that even with the best intentions and the most sincere prayers, we as children of God sometimes neglect to see the opportunities for meaningful and potentially life-changing conversations that God has placed right in front of us. My prayer is that God will extend his patience to us in the same way that he did the Israelites and continue to provide us opportunities to serve as his ambassadors, and that we will keep our eyes focused on the prize to see the opportunities put before us each day.