Thought for today - 07/20/2013

WHAT DO I HAVE LEFT?
"Your body is not you. Your job is not you. Your success, reputation, and possessions are not you. What your parents, boss, peers, friends, or enemies think of you is not you. Your circumstances and limitations are not you. Psychologist Dan Baker puts it like this: 'There is a you in you nobody put there.' We will all, like Daniel, spend some time in Babylon (see Daniel 1:1-7). Sometimes dreams will go unfulfilled, health will disappear, hopes will fade. The key question is never, 'What have I lost?' It is 'What do I have left?'"
- John Ortberg in When the Game Is Over It All Goes Back in the Box