"Are you close to God?"

I hope our family isn’t the only one in America that doesn’t have cable or satellite TV. We’ve got the dish and all the cable run, but it’s not hooked up.

I hope our family isn’t the only one in America that’s not rushing children to some kind of structured activity every day of the week. Now don’t get me wrong—team sports and cultural activities are important, but not every day.

I hope our family isn’t the only one in America that doesn’t have more movies on DVD and VHS than books. We enjoy movies, but oh the places you go with a good book.

I hope our family isn’t the only one in America that doesn’t survive primarily in a steel-and-glass, concrete-curbed world. Some people enjoy living pushed together, but staying in touch with the earth—riding a horse in the rain, walking with a yellow Lab across a field, listening to the turkeys gobble—helps us thrive and stay grounded.

God is a part of all we do. But there are some things we do that bring us closer to God. Listen to life and make a life, not just a living close to God today.

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