Nobel Peace Prize

In church today, we learned that Alfred Nobel, of the Nobel Peace Prize, had a rare experience. When his brother died, the newspaper mixed things up and posted his obituary, instead. Upon reading that his invention of dynamite, which was intended to be used as a safe explosive within construction sites, was turned and used to make it easy for one to kill people; he had an epiphany.

Thus, the birth of the Nobel Peace Prize. 

Nobel had the opportunity and decided to change his intention/meaning of the rest of his life.

He set up the foundation and according to his will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to, "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for his fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." 

What an awesome award and achievement!

It'll be neat to see during our lifetime, who becomes awarded.

To tie this back to church this morning; we were just encouraged to live as though we only had 30 days left. 

What would change? How dramatic would our sense of urgency be? How intentional and clear would our decision and actions become? and who would we share the story of Christ with, that we haven't yet?