More On Jobs

07 Friday Oct 2011

Posted by Seeking Peace in death, heaven, Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs commencement address at Stanford is everywhere. He said some really good things, some really motivating things and something that made me stop in my reading tracks and go back to what it said. I suggest reading the whole speech but read the following excerpt with me.var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src='” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-12356560-1”); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Did you catch the first two sentences? No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. WOW! The sad part to me is that I think he is right on based on many conversations I’ve had. I have heard several sermons and many class discussions and plenty of conversations about how wonderful heaven will be but so many people don’t want to go. What will happen to this? Who will take care of that? What about the kids? These conversations go on like we have all the control over all these factors and we have the best plan and it sure makes it seem that when some talk about the almighty power of God they must not believe it.

Jobs missed the mark on me. I want to go to heaven and I’m ready to go NOW. I trust that God will take care of my kids in ways I never will. I trust that God will make a path for things to work how he, the creator and author of life, knows is best. That path might be that I don’t get to go to heaven anytime soon, that he has plans for me here in this dark place. So be it. I simply ask that he open my eyes, my mind and my heart to what he has in store for me. If that’s to claim my reward, let’s get rolling. If it’s to stay here and be the hands and feet of Jesus for another day, I will trust him.

Grace and peace to you.

Steve Jobs

06 Thursday Oct 2011

Posted by Seeking Peace in heaven, iHeaven, Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs passed away earlier today. He’s one of those people I wish I knew. He saw things differently than most people. He was willing to follow his heart and take risks. He changed lives in many ways, lives of people he never knew and his innovations will likely touch generations. I was a Mac-hater for many years because I didn’t understand them. Once I got a taste, I became a Mac devotee and it’s all I want to use these days.

I hope when I’m gone someone can say similar things about me except that it will be in the context of people’s souls instead of things of this world. I respect Jobs’ for what he did for the computing world and it seemed something he poured passion into at all times. I hope I can do the same in this world but even more so in things that are not of this world. I hope God will use me to change lives, to affect generations and to make people’s lives, both here and in eternity, better.

I have no idea of what Jobs’ relationship with God was but I hope he is strolling heaven and enjoying what life “on the cloud” is really like.

Grace and peace to you.