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Tomorrow I head to The Leadership Summit hosted by Willow Creek.  Then I head out of town for a week to visit friends and family.  On top of all this I am preparing for fall lectures.  Which means that there’s a ton of things to do, and not enough time to do them in!  (So it’s business as usual, right?)

But it got me thinking: how do you make time to improve your skills?

One of life’s challenges is finding ways to continue your education in the face of your day-to-day responsibilities.  But if you don’t continue to learn new skills you become stagnant.  In fact, you may find your job eliminated all together if you don’t continue to improve your skills.  Insurance companies used to hire “alphabetizers” to put records in order.  That’s not a job much in demand thanks to databases and computers!

The same, I think, is true of faith.  You need to continue to work on your faith education.  Not because you’ll be downsized or become obsolete, but because the less time you spend building into your faith education, the more likely you are to run into problems.  Just like your professional life, your spiritual life will become stagnant if you don’t work at developing your faith education.

Keeping an active relationship with God takes work.  And if you’re not putting in the time, then it’s no wonder if you find yourself drifting away.

That’s why I am so excited about tomorrow.  This will be a good opportunity for me to continue my education in faith.  I hope you will consider doing the same.