The 3 Most Important Things to Remember

[image error] "I had set myself an unattainable ideal. I felt  the suicidal despair of all who longed to do what they couldn't. No achievement was ever finite. There was no absolute summit. No peak of Everest to plant a flag on. Success was someone else's opinion."

This is one of the most descriptive quotes I've heard describing the tension one feels in being a pastor. Shoot, it's a great quote about life.

Only it's fiction.

The quote comes from a painter in Dick Francis' book To The Hilt. But it embodies how I twisted I can become as a pastor and a writer. It taught me there are three things I/we must remember...

Everest will come. We will one day plant the flag - just not in this life.
There is One opinion that matters.
No other opinion matters.