Are You Living --30-- or --more-- ?

The stadium lights had gone dim.

The fans were gone — a slow river of people emptying into the parking lot, replaying the game on the way to their cars. The team was in the locker room. The field was quiet.

But up in the pressbox?

The pressbox was alive.

Typewriters clattering. Fax machines humming. The radio crew wrapping up their post-game, voices still warm from three hours of play-by-play. Someone arguing a stat. Someone else on deadline.

I was one of them.

Thirty-plus years in sports journalism and Christian media. Friday nights in pressboxes across the South, writing the story of what just happened on that field before most fans even found their cars.

In that world, two signals told you everything.

When the story wasn’t finished — when there was more to say — you typed two dashes and a word at the bottom of the page.

--more--

Simple. Declarative. I’m not done. Another page is coming.

When the story WAS finished? When there was nothing left to say?

--30--

Done. Complete. The end. Run with it.

Too many people are living like they’re a --30-- story. The crowd has gone home. The lights are dimming. The best chapters are behind them.

The single mom just surviving. The businessman who missed his moment. The dreamer who stopped somewhere between the mortgage and the Monday morning alarm.

--30--

Not you. Not even close.

You’re at the bottom of page one. The best chapters haven’t been written yet. The clarity, the purpose, the momentum. All of it is closer than it feels right now.

You have more, much more. You're not done yet!

That’s why we’re here. Every Thursday.

--more--