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Yesterday I shared the story of believers in their 70s whose focus in life seems to be travel and golf. The key word from their letter was “bored.”
By contrast, here’s something from another friend. Just snippets:

• Grateful for scripture buddies who read the New Testament together every morning this year….
• It also gives me a head start in preparing Sunday school lessons…
• The best days of my week are Mondays and Tuesdays when I get to share light and love with girls in jail…
• Actually, I love every day…

The word “boring” did not appear in this letter. The difference? Purpose!
My Navigator hero Skip Gray used to say that there are a bunch of happy folks “roaring around out there who seem to be doing just fine, except, they have no purpose.” 

We pray for you all the time—pray that our God will make you fit for what he’s called you to be, pray that he’ll fill your good ideas and acts of faith with his own energy so that it all amounts to something. (2 Thessalonians 1.11, MSG)

We preach Christ, warning people not to add to the Message. We teach in a spirit of profound common sense so that we can bring each person to maturity. To be mature is to be basic. Christ! No more, no less. That’s what I’m working so hard at day after day, year after year, doing my best with the energy God so generously gives me. (Colossians 1.28, 29, MSG)

One thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way… (Philippians 3.13 – 15, ESV)