Recently, I've lost a couple of family members and some of my church family to death due to various reasons. I lost my dad to congestive heart failure, my nephew-in-law in a freak construction accident, and some of my church brethren to various diseases and ailments.
All this has caused me to take another look at my life to see if I'm living my life as full as I can. The bible tells us in Ecclesiastes 9:10: "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom." I'm going to try to start living my life as I've always been planning to do instead of waiting until a better day.
Several of the people I've lost in the last few weeks, I think left a lot of things undone when their life was over. I'm not in any way diminishing the lives of those that have recently past; I just want to make sure that I live my life instead of always planning it. It's good to plan things but at some point you've got to leave the plans behind and actually do things. I'm guilty of "I'm gonna do this someday" instead of just getting up and doing it! When I leave this life I want to know that I did everything I could to enjoy a full life and I don't want to lay on my death-bed regretting the things that I didn't get done.
I want to always tell the folks that I love, "I love you". If there is something that needs done I'm going to get it done. I'm the world's worst procrastinator and that is something that needs correcting. There are a whole bunch of things that I've been wanting to do, things that I have intended to do, but as of yet are left undone. I want to leave this life with no excuses. I intend to live my life with joy and peace and some of that will come because I've actually lived my life and done things with all my might. Most of this joy and peace will come through the peace that passes all understanding because I know the Lord will take care of me.
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