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I’d like to forget my day at work. Yet, I was replaying my painful day in my head as Ernie and I stood by one of the downtown Tucson bus benches waiting for our route carrier to come by and begin moving us toward our northwest homes.

Adding to my mental misery the spring afternoon sun was way too warm for this time of year. Sweating I closed my eyes trying to pretend I could shut out the world and be alone and feel sorry for myself. That’s when Ernie said, “What would you say is the absolute ultimate reward?”

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Not paying attention but hearing Ernie anyway while mauling through my crummy day I said, “To have the chance to live this day over again and make it better.”

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Ernie played along. “OK, why would living the day over again be your ultimate reward?”

Without hesitating, I said, “I could change things that were embarrassing, uncalled for, and insensitive.”

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“Hmm, so, living the workday over again would be your ultimate reward?”

Reasoning it out I said, “Well, maybe not my ultimate reward.”

“Good to hear you say that because that’s my point.”

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Lost I thought ‘point, what point? What did you mean?’ “I’m sorry, what’s your point?”

I could see Ernie was annoyed with me. But showing calm he said, “Naturally, of course, there are many rewards in this life, aren’t there?”

“I guess so.”

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“For instance, your new puppy welcomes you home when no one else does. Or from the Family room, you smell, drifting in from the kitchen oven, your favorite peach cobbler pie. Or you’re thrilled because you finally have free-time to research something on the internet that is important to you.”

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Following his point now I said, “OK, I get it.”

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“However, what do these possible rewards have in common?”

‘What?’ “Nothing.”

“Wrong answer. All of those things are temporary rewards. None of them is your ultimate reward.”

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Irritated, my jaw tightened. “Fine, what’s my ultimate reward?”

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“Heaven.”

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Sighing I said, “OK … that’s a point”

“A lot of us don’t consider heaven the ultimate reward because we’re lost in the details of our daily life and cannot comprehend this ultimate reward … it’s too big for us … it’s too grand … it’s too overwhelming,” Ernie concluded.

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“Um, I need to consider that. It may change my day.”

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KNOCK-KNOCK

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Your mission today if you decide to accept it is to open and walk through a door of opportunity.

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Will you?

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It may cost you some inconvenience.

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Even so …

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Will you do it?

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WHO’S THERE?

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Sometimes I’ve ignored the knock-knock on the door.

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(Haven’t you?)

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Because I don’t want to get involved.

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Sometimes I’ve mistakenly thought I should only be concerned with “big opportunity”

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However, maybe I oughta be thinking “small opportunity.”

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YOUR OPPORTUNITY

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Truth is, I often stand on the threshold of what I see as small opportunities.

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This morning, for example, I called my brother-in-law who recently had surgery.

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My call didn’t take much effort

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Mostly I listened to him talk about his recovery.

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He told me my listening encouraged him.

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What door of opportunity will you walk through today? 

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