I had another one of those “moments” this week. Those utterly phenomenal periods of time when you know if you died immediately afterwards, your life would be complete. I don't know when I started having such experiences, but I do know how blessed I am. I know that many individuals live their whole lives and never feel so complete.

Such moments, or periods of time, differ from a mountaintop experience. They may be what happens due to a melding of the mountaintops and the valleys. They may be the result of being willing to bloom where you are planted. By that, I mean recognizing your God-given talents and using them for His glory anywhere and anytime you can.

Actually, I don't know how they happen. I just know that when they do, I am exhilaratingly happy, and always I am left thinking, “It just can't get any better than this!”

But this past week, when I had my latest moment, I could only cry. I've told you a hundred times or more that tears are such a tremendous release for sadness and joy. I ache for the man or woman who cannot cry.

So, I cried after the attorney left my house. He had called the day before to ask about buying 20 copies of the little book, “What IS Love?” that I published in May. I asked why he wanted them. I mean, wouldn't you have wanted to know why a “lawyer” would make such a request? Think about it.

He wanted to take the books to Trinec, in Eastern Europe. They would be gifts for those individuals to whom he and his team would be ministering over the next two weeks during a Professional English Language Conference. Never heard of Trinec? Neither had I. It is six hours east of Prague and the home of one of the world's largest steel manufacturing plants.

For eight years this attorney has been a member of International Messengers. Above their logo on a brochure he gave me is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news.” And below that the question is posed, “How will the world find Christ if no one will go tell them?”

The organization was founded in 1984 by Robert Rasmusson as a branch of Oak Hills Fellowship in Bemidji, Minnesota. In 1985, the ministry began sending short-term mission teams to Western Europe, then expanded to Eastern Europe and parts of Asia in 1986. The English Language Camps have been the primary evangelistic tool used by the organization since 1985. In 1989, International Messengers began to place full-time missionaries and national staff in Eastern Europe to assist with the camps and the discipleship of new believers.

The attorney who came to my house is one of more than 200 short-term missionaries who are committed to this cause. Once I heard his story and the number of people his group will be teaching, I gave him 70 books instead of selling him 20. I like the number 70. Remember, we are talking about “What IS Love?” here. My little book will be used to help teach conversational English in the name of the Lord... I was speechless.

By the way, this fellow also is a pilot for a flying ministry who transports gravely ill patients around the country, and they need nurses. Sometimes they need pilots or mechanics, but right now they need nurses who will volunteer to assist on some of these mercy flights. If interested call me at 770-460-5000 and I will put you in touch with this most interesting attorney.

And yes, he's got a real shingle, I saw it. So sometimes he practices law, too. But he has discovered the real secret to happiness, the kind of happiness that leaves you knowing if you died today, your life would be complete, and so you won't always find him behind his desk or in a courtroom. No, he's too busy enjoying all the “moments” with which God has blessed him, too, as he ministers in every way he knows how. Oh, I forgot to tell you, he also sings with a Gospel quartet. He left a tape with me. Not bad!

I'm telling you, this guy could almost single-handedly dispel every lawyer joke you ever heard. Please pray for him and those to whom he reaches out in the name of Jesus Christ. And pray that my little book, which he will take with him next week into Eastern Europe, will help to spread the message of God's love all around the globe. Like I said, “it just doesn't get any better than this...”

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