Understanding that put his life in an entirely new light.Eternal life-we tend to think of it in terms of existence that never comes to an end. He had never once considered that he would be a great writer in the coming kingdom, and that he was merely in training now. Life wasn’t inviting him to be who he was-yet.
But few playwrights achieve anything like success. It wasn’t a matter of being unqualified he was, and is, a very gifted writer. His career was not panning out the way he deeply wanted it to, and he was becoming rather depressed. I was talking with a playwright several years ago. if I don’t get this done now, I’ll get to it later.” This is so important, for no human life reaches its potential here. How many of your plans take an unending future into account? “Let’s see, I’m going to be alive forevermore, so. Pick out my one or two best things and say, “That’s what we did: all the rest was rehearsal.”Īll the rest was rehearsal-not for just a few shining moments, but for an eternity of joy. An artist should be judged by his best, just as an athlete. That’s a very good thing to have done in a lifetime. Once we were playing “These Foolish Things” and at the end the band stops and I play a little cadenza. Maybe twice in my life I reached what I wanted to. In The Call, Os Guinness writes about a delightful story told by Artie Shaw, a famous clarinetist during the big band era: But what if life is a dress rehearsal? What if the real production is about to begin? That is precisely what Jesus says he tells us that we are being shaped, prepared, groomed for a part in the grand drama that is coming. No one gets all he desires no one even comes close. Live it to the fullest.” What a setup for a loss of heart. “Life,” as a popular saying goes, “is not a dress rehearsal.
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