Destination please

Every trip has a destination......a ending point.  How those trips are made is a different story.  When I have gone on a road trip, say to California from Illinois, I have rather enjoyed just meandering, stopping to see whatever it is that may have caught my attention and exploring it a bit.  I'm not, you see, particularly fond of time constraints.  I like to really enjoy the trips.  I feel much more relaxed doing it that way.

Every life also has a destination.....an ending point.  How those trips are made is a matter of the choices we make as we travel life's road.  It's often lots harder to make life's trip relaxed and enjoyable because we tend to let a lot of "stuff" get in the way of having a pleasurable trip.  Why?  Because we are prone to make bad choices and decisions, and we are just plain capable of messing up aren't we?

The destination we guys seek isn't to be a better man, husband, and father.  That's one of the choices we make as we make the journey.  As Christian men, we strive to be more Christ-like in our daily lives so that we will realize the destination when our time comes...heaven.  As we strive to be more Christ-like, our days will be more relaxed and enjoyable, and thus the journey to reach our destination will be much more pleasurable.....even with that "stuff" that always seems to pop up in our way.

The goal of the Christ follower is to reach the destination of our life's journey, always striving to make each day a better day than the one just before it and to not let the dogs get in our way.  Winston Churchill had something to say about that: