Living in light of eternity

I   was recently at a wedding. The wedding of Jared and Tori. Over the many years that my wife and I had done ministry, the class that graduated with Tori and Jared was especially colorful and cool. Of all the personalities involved, Carl stuck out. He was a bit wild and woolly, always had a great story to tell, and had tons of heart. In high school Carl is the kind of kid that howled at the moon, so to speak. Once Christ got hold of him, he was a kid with an unusual passion for communicating the love of Christ to others. And he was active in the Bible studies that I would lead for the young men. I guess in one of these studies I must have told the story of when I almost drowned in the Big Thompson River back in 1975. Beth Sutton and several the gals from the summer project in Estes Park, Colorado decided to go tubing in the Big Thompson. As one of the staff leaders I felt somewhat responsible for the students and when I heard that the girls were going alone I thought it prud...