How I Lost Three Hundred Lunches

Thursday, December 26, 2024

When I was in high school, I started a rock band. In the process, I skipped lunch every day for a long time and saved enough lunch money to buy a sound system. Not long afterward, a thief broke in through the window and stole it all - about three hundred lunches out the window. In the same way, there is no shortage of pursuits in life that end up not being worth all the work in the end. The world is filled with people who spend their lives sacrificing their peace, their relationships, their time, their integrity, their joy, even their health and their relationship with God. And for what - money, ambition, status? What are you spending your life to get, and what are you sacrificing to get it? Is it worth it? Look at your life and be blessed with what you do have! Treasure the time, your loved ones, and all the blessings God's given you. Otherwise, you might end up on your death bed regretting all you sacrificed, and all you lost..., just like three hundred lunches out the window.

From Message #673 - The Pyrrhic Victories