A Blog by Jason Salamun

This video by Sean Mullens is simple, inspiring, and full of goodness.

“I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live.

You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be, and one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls upon you to stand for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid.

You refuse to do it because you want to live longer. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab or shoot or bomb your house. So you refuse to take a stand.

Well, you may go on and live until you are ninety, but you are just as dead at 38 as you would be at ninety.

And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.

You died when you refused to stand up for right.

You died when you refused to stand up for truth.

You died when you refused to stand up for justice.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From the sermon “But, If Not” delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church on November 5, 1967.

In his book, “Wishful Thinking”, Frederick Buechner wrote, “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”

I refer to that as the sweet spot.

Have you considered what that might be for you?

What are those things in which you are most passionate?

Those activities and interests that get you the most excited?

Those talents that you most enjoy exercising?

That work that doesn’t feel like work?

How could they be used to be good news to this world?

To bring light into darkness?

To tell a better story?

Discover the intersection of your joy and the world’s need and dive in.

Ponder that. Pray though that. Act on that.

And let me encourage you to go for it!

You were created to be a blessing to this world.

To show love and offer hope.

What are you waiting for?

You’ve got one life.

Make it count.