This for me has been a week of deep reflection. Four people in the in less than ten days that I have known here in Parma have passed away. Outside of my community here in small town America another three people I have known passed away in the same time frame. I am getting to the age where I am thinking that I have more friends that have passed on than I have in my life at the present time. The grandparents of my friends as well as my grandparents are all gone. Most of the parents of my childhood friends have passed on. This is one more reason you can’t go back to the home of your childhood. All those who played such a wonderful role in your life are gone. Now I am losing many of my generation. Which leads me to the conclusion that I am approaching the winter season of my own life. I remember with great clarity many of the events of my childhood. They seem like they were just yesterday. But in truth they were 50 plus years ago. While I can hold onto my memories of those days and times I simply am unable to repeat them because death has robbed me of that ability to repeat those times with loved ones who are gone. We all have so many days allotted to us. We don’t know how many days we have. But we do get to pick and choose what we will do with the time we have. For me I want to love deeper than I have loved before. I want to serve in ways that I have not before. I want to have a sense of urgency about my life because I want to do more than I have done, accomplish more than what others expect of me and more than I have expected of my self. I don’t have time to waste because in a 100 years from now 99.99999% of the population of the world will be gone. We will be replaced by billions who are yet to be born. Its clear that I am not going to change the world. It was not my purpose to do so. But I can change my part of the world by my actions, deeds, words and goals. I can instill those values within my kids, grandkids and friends. All ready I have great examples in my life of people I should be more like. I am grateful to those who by simply living their lives so completely have made a huge difference in my life. Its true I don’t know how many days, weeks, months or years I have. I don’t have control over that, but I do have control over the use of my time. And it turns out that time is of greater value that gold or any other earthy possession. What we do with our time and who we spend it with is the signature of our lives. It is the key to our happiness it defines our purpose our values and the very nature of who we are… As for me I will savor every second of time that God grants to me… As he will hold me account to the time he gave me. I hope he will be pleased with how I spent my time and with who….
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 03:47:09 +0000
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