Happy Wednesday, 55 degrees, a cool north chill in the air this morning, the wind is blowing a bit making it just a titch chilly for sitting outside, thank goodness I have my "Betty blankie" to snuggle under... the sun is just now beginning to come up over the mountain and the birds are singing a happy little tune. Looks as if it just might be another beautiful day here in Utah:)
I am so thankful to be alive this morning, so thankful that I am able to stand in witness of the beauty God is allowing me to see, the choirs of nature that he is allowing me to hear, the chance to make right choices today, to stand in his favor!!! When we go to bed at night we never know what the morning will look like, we are so used to the "get up" in the morning that we just expect that it will be the same as the morning before, but do we ever know? Just in the last few weeks many are realizing that there are no promises, no guarantees, no "for sures" So many people have come for prayer, so many have suffered loss in the blink of an eye, so many situations that have altered the "normalcy" so much heartache because life as they knew it is no more. September 11, 2001, people going about their daily lives, going to work, dropping kids at daycare, going through the motions then suddenly in a matter of seconds, there was no more job, so many perished, so many taking their last moments to try and call loved ones to tell them goodbye. Just think about the storms in Joplin a few weeks ago, life was going on just as it should when suddenly sirens went off, big black clouds dipped from the sky and in 45 seconds what people had thought their safe havens, their solid places, their existence...was GONE. Blown across town, flattened... the storm took lives, it took homes, it tested faiths...all in 45 seconds. A little boy, curious as they are, found a gun owned by his parents, pulled the trigger and was gone, a man worked in the yard making it beautiful for all his neighbors to see, pulling weeds when suddenly he feels a sharp pain in his chest, before he can even stand he is gone. A simple picnic, family enjoying a nice outing, a parent cannot find their small child and it becomes hauntingly evident that they have fallen into the rapid water of the stream, searchers called in, finally after hours of hope the child is found downstream with no life left in him....and the list goes on and on. I know many of you will be sorely reminded of an event that changed your life forever, some of you will know first hand exactly how these events feel, will know the sadness of the aftermath, will begin to wipe tears as the memories of that very moment comes rushing back to you. While many of us have dealt with death, we have had time to prepare, we have had time to make peace, to pour mass amounts of love into the one that is making way for their transition to their heavenly home. It does not make it easier, but we can get a sense of how things will be, we can begin to accept in our hearts that a change is coming, we can see what is down the road. Life is ever changing, some times for the good, a new job, a new home, a new vehicle, a baby born....each day millions and millions of changes take place, some for the better in your life some not so much, the loss of a job, an illness, age....life stands still for no one, it is ever changing and we sometimes are foolish in falling into routines thinking that it will always be....When I arose this morning, as always I thanked God for giving me another morning to sit in his splendor, I bowed my head in prayer and prayed for the ill, for the ones suffering loss, for the ones struggling financially, for the ones battling depression and sadness, for the ones lost in bad relationships, for the children suffering at the hands of adults, for the ones who have come to me asking prayer for specific needs and reasons. I prayed, prayed, prayed. The word that touched my heart was "today"the fact that we are not promised tomorrow was right there on my heart, today is a gift, today is here, yesterday is gone, tomorrow is forever away, so we must live in this day, we must let the ones most important to us that we love them, we must not take for granted that at any moment an event could take place that would forever change our "life". We must move forward as if there will be a tomorrow, but we must also live as pleasingly as we can in honor of our savior and our heavenly father right now. Today I will not allow people to waste my precious time with their "issues" and dramas, today I will not allow my heart to be troubled with he said/ she said junk. Today I will make sure that people I love know that I love them, that I appreciate them, that I am thankful they are in my life....I will look for tomorrow but I will not expect it, I will plan for tomorrow but will not neglect today in doing so. If I knew tomorrow I would not have legs...I would run, skip, hop, jump... today:) If tomorrow I knew I would not have the ability to make sound, I would sing, laugh, shout... today:) If tomorrow I knew my loved ones would be gone, I would laugh with them, cry with them, hug them, enjoy them.... today:) May God bless you this day with an urgency to take an extra moment and let those in your life know you love them, if you are holding anger today, let it go. Live today as if it will be your last, how do you want to be remembered? I think I want my loved ones to smile at my memory. From this point on I am going to make each of my days as special as I can!!! Are you with me???
God bless you all and know that love is all around you, all you have to do is let go of the negative and allow the positive in! God bless:)
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