I think it's time we live like we were dying.
Today at Synergy, (my church's HS Sunday school), we listened to the song "Live Like You Were Dying" by Tim McGraw and read a lesson. The verse he read says to wake up from the darkness, that is, to wake up from your ignorance and embrace your faith. It also talked about time and time constraints.
When God created the world, there was no sense of time except for night and day. They didn't have schedules to keep or homework that was due the next day. We have become slaves to time. I constantly fret about how I'm not going to get a large homework assignment done in the amount of time allotted or if I'm going to be late to class.
Life is too short, shorter for some than others, to worry about whether or not we'll have time to do the things we've always wanted to do.
Life is too short to worry about not reaching your dreams and goals.
Life is too short to procrastinate.
Carpe Diem! Seize the Day!
Life is too short to not take risks.
Life is too short to have regrets.
Life is too short to hold grudges.
Life is too short to be plagued by worry.
Life is too short to not love.
You don't know if today is your last day.
You don't know if you have a month to live.
You don't know if you have fifty years to live.
What would you do if a doctor told you that you had six months to live? Would you spend half of it in a deep depression? Or would you embrace that time you have left and finish the unfinished, love the unloved, do the undo-able? Would you disregard money and travel to where you've always wanted to go? Would you explore places you never thought you'd go? Would time even matter?
Would you forgive those who have wronged you? And would you ask for forgiveness from those you have wronged? Would you "...love deeper..." and "...talk sweeter..."? Would you "...become a friend a friend would like to have"? Would you finally tell him or her you love them?
Or would you spend those six months filled with sadness, regretting the fact you never did those things?
When it's all said and done, will you have died like you were living?
When God created the world, there was no sense of time except for night and day. They didn't have schedules to keep or homework that was due the next day. We have become slaves to time. I constantly fret about how I'm not going to get a large homework assignment done in the amount of time allotted or if I'm going to be late to class.
Life is too short, shorter for some than others, to worry about whether or not we'll have time to do the things we've always wanted to do.
Life is too short to worry about not reaching your dreams and goals.
Life is too short to procrastinate.
Carpe Diem! Seize the Day!
Life is too short to not take risks.
Life is too short to have regrets.
Life is too short to hold grudges.
Life is too short to be plagued by worry.
Life is too short to not love.
You don't know if today is your last day.
You don't know if you have a month to live.
You don't know if you have fifty years to live.
What would you do if a doctor told you that you had six months to live? Would you spend half of it in a deep depression? Or would you embrace that time you have left and finish the unfinished, love the unloved, do the undo-able? Would you disregard money and travel to where you've always wanted to go? Would you explore places you never thought you'd go? Would time even matter?
Would you forgive those who have wronged you? And would you ask for forgiveness from those you have wronged? Would you "...love deeper..." and "...talk sweeter..."? Would you "...become a friend a friend would like to have"? Would you finally tell him or her you love them?
Or would you spend those six months filled with sadness, regretting the fact you never did those things?
When it's all said and done, will you have died like you were living?
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