Another Defining Moment

This one's another defining moment of ministry -- one that stayed with me through all the years. In my first major ministry, I paid my first pastoral visit. It was a modest house with a big lawn -- and an eighty-four year old man -- a warm and kindly man. He said to me: "You are twenty-three. Life lies ahead of you. I want you to imagine that you are looking at life from where I am, in this chair, at eighty-four."