Hearing the words “you have cancer” has a way of crystalizing in a person the most important principles for a life well lived. What essentials do you consider foundational to meaningfully live your life? How are you prioritizing the 1440 minutes you experience every day?
Bible Gateway interviewed Jim Burns (@drjimburns) about his book, Have Serious Fun: And 12 Other Principles to Make Each Day Count (Zondervan, 2021).
Why were you compelled to write this book when you were diagnosed with cancer?
Dr. Jim Burns: Writing a book on these life lessons and principles was not even in my mind. As I faced my mortality, it caused me to stop and reflect on the key life lessons or principles that have guided my life that I could pass on to my children. However, as I wrote those lessons on paper, along with some Bible verses that were “life message Scriptures,” I realized that these were the same principles that guided my marriage, my parenting, my vocation, and my relationship with God. A couple of years later, a friend of mine who was leading a national pastors’ conference, asked me to speak on my cancer experience and learned lessons. After I finished, there was an incredible almost two-hour spontaneous Q-and-A. I think it was then I realized that the principles I had written down the night before my cancer surgery had meaning for others as well as my family.
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By Karen Ehman
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