Play Your Part...

"Ambition! If it means the desire to get ahead of other people then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one."

A $10 bargain buy, and this is what you get - brilliance. Every time really, with C.S. Lewis. You read something that seems so simple, and when he spoke it probably rolled off his tongue with some ease we never dream of having, but do more than read it. Apply it. By now your thinking about your goals, ambitions, and desires. What is their purpose?

Maybe you're driven to earn the title "MVP" just so you can hang a plaque in your office and stare at the gold letters, inscribed by some automated machine made in China. But my hope is that our desires will be to see out the tasks in front of us to completion, working as hard as our minds and bodies will let us.

A word from Paul

"In light of all this, here's what I want you to do. Get out there and walk—better yet, run!—on the road God called you to travel. I don't want any of you sitting around on your hands. I don't want anyone strolling off, down some path that goes nowhere. And mark that you do this with humility and discipline—not in fits and starts, but steadily, pouring yourselves out for each other in acts of love, alert at noticing differences and quick at mending fences."
- Eph 4:1-3

"I've got shotgun."

Sit on your hands if you'd like, you're not driving. Just keep telling the other person how to drive, constantly thinking to yourself how horrible and miscalculated each turn they make is, they've got a heavy foot (and we all know it), every time they hit the breaks the outcome is whiplash, and you're pissed that they took the long way to get here. You'd probably do better, if you were driving, but you're not. It's not even your car. You're just moving along..."Never mistake motion for action."