Dear Friends,
Each year seems to pass more swiftly than the one before, and I am amazed that I will be 80 years old today. Since I was born in 1945, it is clear to me that I am living on borrowed time to accomplish unfinished business.
Near the end of his life, Moses wrote these poignant words:
"So teach us to number our days, That we may present to you a heart of wisdom." Psalm 90:12
As a writer, teacher, speaker, and mentor, the two things that summarize my ministry are resources and relationships. I have created a large body of work and have cultivated many relationships over the past 50+ years. In light of that, I have attached two documents (Personal Pensées and Principles and Values to Live By) that provide a good overview of the principles and practices that I want to pass on to others.
I am convinced that the best of this earth will be surpassed by the least of heaven, and it is because of this that I find myself increasingly desirous of being at home with the Lord. Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 5:1-11 capture the eternal perspective that I seek to convey:
"For we know that if our earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed, in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, since in fact after putting it on, we will not be found naked. For indeed, we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a pledge.
Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—for we walk by faith, not by sight—but we are of good courage and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive compensation for his deeds done through the body, in accordance with what he has done, whether good or bad.
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade people, but we are well known to God; and I hope that we are also well known in your consciences.”
May you live well and finish well as you fix your eyes on Jesus. There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Ken Boa