Opportunities Come Along Once

This sounds terrible but I didn't have time to sit down and talk with God today. Had a lot of people in the store and also some running round to do at the beginning, that's when I usually try and sit down with the Bible and pray. I did talk to God through out the day, you know those little sentence prayers. I was going to say I didn't do much listening, but then that all depends on how you expect to hear from God. When I think about it, He speaks through many different ways; that's what looking for signs of the kingdom is all about.

I'm starting to develop a bit of a friendship with my local TVNZ rep, he pops in from time to time to see if everything is okay with my advertising. We sit down and end up chatting about a host of things. At the moment we are talking about what happens at the weekend, might start talking about families soon. He's just a young guy, I think rather typical of guys in their late 20's. Plays a bit of rugby, goes to the gym, socialises and then watches Coronation St!

Actually I have been following the TV programme, "The Amazing Race". One of those reality programmes. This one is about people in pairs racing round the world doing certain tasks and each program the last pair to arrive at the destination point is eliminated. The pairs are made up of many different relationships; like two sisters, husband and wife, two gay Anglican Priests, a young man and his Grandfather, a young couple in a new relationship and a father and daughter. That is just a few of the types, any way last night was the final. We had three pairs left: father and daughter, new couple and son and grandfather. At the beginning of the race most of the pairs would have major fall-outs with each other. The father and daughter were a classic case. The father always criticized the daughter if things went bad, he would often loose his temper. It was a very fractured relationship. Ronald & Christina, the father/daughter Team, are competing in the Race to make up for lost time. Since Ronald was constantly traveling for work throughout much of his daughter's formative years, Christina hopes the Race will allow her father--a self-proclaimed workaholic--to stop and smell the roses and provide them with some meaningful time together. Throughout the race that happened, slowly the father saw the beauty in his daughter and her amazing talents, he stopped talking and running her down. He even started to praise and encourage her. They only came second but said after the race that the most valuable thing that they had learnt and gained was a real father daughter bond and love; they both felt they finally were a father and daughter.

Lost opportunities don't often get a second chance, God gives us windows of opportunities, it what we do with them that can make the difference. I thank God that he used that programme to remind me to work out my priorities.