What’s Your One Thing?

The movie City Slickers is a great story about finding your place in life.

Hoping to relieve the frustrations of his life, the character played by Billy Crystal convinced his two buddies to take a vacation at a working dude ranch.

Crystal’s life is scattered. He is torn between the obligations to his family and his job. He is realizing that life is passing him by — that his own body and mind are aging and he has nothing to show for it. 

What’s his purpose? What is his meaning?

The old cowboy, played by Jack Palance, is leathered, rusty, and weatherd by the way sof the of the world. 

Palance asks Crystal if he would like to know the “secret of life.” Palance waves his finger “It’s just one thing,” he says gravely. “The secret is pursuing that one thing.” 

Some of my problem in life is that I’ve never had that one thing. For most of my life, is was my family. My one thing was to create adventure, discovery and life lessons for my boys. Then they grew up. For a while, my one thing was feeding my brain. I would read and study and debate issues — any issue.

I know the Christian thing to say is that my one thing is Christ, but I have to ask, “Is it?”  If that’s true, what would it look like?

What is your “One Thing?”  Feel free to comment here.

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