Relevance

David has cancer.  He found out a year ago.  He’s doing OK right now, but how he sees things is changing, as it does for people who stare at death:

All these years I have been in ministry and have been on a constant quest to make the gospel relevant to my hearers.  I now see that as misguided.  The question is not how we can make the gospel relevant to us, but how we can make ourselves relevant to God.  In other words, God defines reality and it is our task to conform our lives to reality as He defines it, not "make Him" relevant to us.  He is always relevant, but we are often irrelevant to Him. – David Wayne, Jollyblogger