If you were given the diagnosis that you had only a few months to live, what would you consider most important to say and perhaps more importantly, what would you consider important to do?
Author Randy Pausch was given that message. At that point he set about trying to say and do what he believed was most important. This relatively young man tried to squeeze a lifetime of important messages into his best selling book, The Last Lecture, before his death this past summer. I found the succinct chapters to have much brilliance and poetic beauty.
He sets the reader up to ponder simple yet profound questions and ideas. Randy asks the reader to remember their childhood dreams. “Who enabled your dreams? Whose dreams have you enabled?”
He asks the person about their essential self by asking the question: “What do I, alone, truly have to offer? What is your life’s message?”
He tackles the goodness as well as the struggle with knowing the truth.
If you would be interested in thinking about these questions for your own life and how you want to live your life forward, I’d invite you to a great evening with Pastor Jeff Clinger and myself. We’ll be leading a discussion with our own thoughts and ideas about the book tonight (October 9). We’ll be meeting in Room 220 at 6:30, in the east building, east hallway.
Jeff and I both found this book to be helpful as we consider these important questions with people on a daily basis. We hope you’ll join us and join in the discussion. All are welcome. Reading the book in advance will allow you to gain more from the class, but will not be required.
