By Shawn Flory Replogle<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One:<\/strong> 24 hours.\u202f Maybe a few more hours than that, but not many.\u202f Essentially a day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two:<\/strong> That\u2019s how much time is left of this National Youth Conference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One:<\/strong> This is officially the beginning of the end.\u202f Not THE end. Just the end of this event, this place in time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two: <\/strong>\u202fWe will never be gathered as this same group of people ever again: not the same youth\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n One:<\/strong> \u2026 not the same advisors\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two:<\/strong> \u2026 not the same staff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One:<\/strong> 24 hours.\u202f One day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two:<\/strong> In that 24 hours we could be sad about it coming to an end\u2026\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n One:<\/strong> It IS kind of sad.\u202f I\u2019ll miss new friends.\u202f I\u2019ll miss this tremendous view.\u202f I\u2019ll miss\u2026 well, everything! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two:<\/strong> \u2026OR, we could think of these 24 hours as a gift!\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n One:<\/strong> A gift? How? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two:<\/strong> Well, it\u2019s not five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes \u2014 that\u2019s a year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One:<\/strong>\u202f I get it, you\u2019re talking about how many minutes are in a day.\u202f Let\u2019s see.\u202f The math of that is \u2026one thousand four hundred and forty.\u202f We have about 1500 minutes left in NYC 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two:<\/strong> 1500 minutes to show love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: 1500 minutes to receive love.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n One:<\/strong> 1500 minutes to care for someone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: 1500 minutes to be cared by someone.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two:<\/strong> 1500 minutes to shine the light Jesus offers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: 1500 minutes to prepare for shining our lights back home.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n One:<\/strong> How will we measure our lives in that time? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two:<\/strong> What will do with the time ahead of us? <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: 1500 opportunities, all in our reach.<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Shawn Flory Replogle One: 24 hours.\u202f Maybe a few more hours than that, but not many.\u202f Essentially a day. Two: That\u2019s how much time is left of this National Youth Conference. One: This is officially the beginning of the end.\u202f Not THE end. Just the end of this event, this place in time. Two: \u202fWe will never be gathered as this same group of people ever again:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[58,51],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call-to-worship","tag-call-to-worship","tag-shawn-flory-replogle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}