I appreciate everyone who comes to Yellowhammer to get the latest news and conservative political opinion, and I don’t want to abuse the relationship we’ve forged over the last year by posting personal things. Yellowhammer has become more than I ever imagined it would, and I forget sometimes that this started as — and still is — just my personal blog. But occasionally I’d like to post things that are more personal in nature. I’ll label these posts “PERSONAL BLOG” so you’ll know to skip over them if you’re not interested.

I’ve spent a lot of time on Yellowhammer over the past week talking about the Alabama Accountability Act. As a matter of fact, eight of my last nine posts have been about the bill and everything that’s happened since it passed Feb. 28. And I’m sure there will be multiple posts about it this week as well.

There are very few political issues that elicit the type of passionate response from me that school choice does. I pretty much summed up my feelings on the Matt Murphy Show last week when I said:

“We’ve got impoverished children — many of whom are minorities — who are trapped without access to a good education, which is the ultimate equalizer. And it’s being denied to them by the very people in elected office who claim to be representing their best interest, when in reality they’re representing their own interests and their own power.”

I’ve been at least that animated in multiple posts and interviews since then.

But as I sat in the congregation at the Church at Brook Hills on Sunday, I was struck by what our Pastor, David Platt, had to say. The entire message centered around the idea that we spend so much time talking about temporal things, that we forget to focus on things that are eternal.

Francis Chan summed up this concept when he said, “Our greatest fear should not be fear of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”

Does fighting to make sure children have access to a good education matter? Absolutely. But even that pales in comparison to making sure those children have access to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I’ve found myself focusing on a lot of things — many of them worthy and significant endeavors — while neglecting to focus on the one thing that is of eternal significance.

I thought some of you may could relate. I hope you all have a great week.