Morgan, I like your comments about "freedom"--- e.g. "I wish that I could say that I lived in that freedom all the time. Maybe one day I will." Amen! This might lead into another post, but I have really been thinking about the verse from scripture, "It is for freedom that Christ set us free" (Galations 5:1). This is so true, yet do any of really live that out? It's similar to prisoners who have been in jail for years, and then they are suddenly freed; some are so unable to handle their new freedom that they purposely do something to land themselves back in the four cell walls that once imprisoned them!  I kind of think we as Christians do the same things. That's why it's so easy to fall back into old sins... or into legalism, another trap that robs us of our freedom. And, as you point out, chasing significance or success can have the same effect. In the end though, I try to think-- who had the biggest, life-changing effect on me? Was it the person who wrote the best-selling, insightful book or was it my close friend who spoke truth and life to me, or a pastor who spoke truth in love to their flock? Chances are, even if you never write the game-changer book, you were a game-changer in someone's life. 

Sorry, I think I may have chased a rabbit down the trail there. I hope I caught it! ; )