Living in light of eternity

Several years ago I had the opportunity to sit for 20 minutes with a well-known Christian counselor. We were on the way back from a Christian conference up in the mountains- now coming down the hill in a in an air-conditioned bus. The counselor was seated in the very back seat, actually the entire back row where he had his briefcase open and a stack of files spread all over the place. He had been speaking to us at the conference and I really enjoyed and appreciated what he had to say. The opportunity was given for anyone who wanted a short visit with him to set up an appointment. The only time left for me was on the way down the hill. He started by asking me if there is anything in particular I wanted to talk about. At this point let me press pause and say I do have some questions about doctor/ patient confidentiality. In this case I'm the patient, it's my life, and I suppose I can talk about it. I don't want to accidentally reflect negatively on him, so I won't use h...

I  I remember the first time I saw "Zorro". Not the old TV version, but the movie. The one with Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. I remember talking with my friends about the movie. It was a good action flick, and it had a good plot, but that's not what everyone talked about. Guys or girls -- all they could talk about was this newcomer, Catherine Zeta-Jones "did you see her skin" "she had perfect hair" and on and on. People were fascinated by how perfect she was. One person said, "I kept looking in every scene to see if there was one flaw in her skin, one hair out of place, but I never found any." I know this sounds like girl talk, but it wasn't- it was what everybody was saying- guys and girls. Perfection is something that has incredible fascination to us all. I remember in high school there was a guy in our class, Harry Schaeffer. He got a perfect 1600 on his SAT scores. Now I remember a lot of thi...