Live Every Moment...

REO Speedwagon has a song entitled "Live Every Moment"....The first line is: "Live every moment, Love every day, 'Cause before you know it your precious time slips away".

If ever I needed a reminder that life is short, and we shouldn't let the little things bog us down, I got one this week. The associate pastor at our church, Pastor Mark Steele, died after a very short battle with cancer. He was only 54 years old and seemingly full of life. The kind of man I would like to be. Exactly one month to the day after finding out he had cancer after going to the doctor for pain in his hip, he died.

In going through Tools this second time, I am trying to look at the daily work through the eyes of someone who knows his days are numbered, and should enjoy every second that he possibly can. I can't possibly know when my time will come. But I can make sure I grow to be the kind of person I know I should be, both spiritually and in the physical world.

Someone cuts me off in traffic... so what? The line is long at Wal-Mart... It's an opportunity to talk with someone new. My son is giving me attitude...(that's a hard one!)... I'm thankful he's here and able to do so.

We get so wound-up and stressed-out about things that won't possibly matter an hour from now, let alone in the end. Part of happiness is being able to accept our position in life regarding things we can't change, and be happy for any opportunities to improve the situations we can. To make the best out of every situation.

I saw a man, my pastor, go from someone who stated that he wasn't ready to leave his family yet. That he still had living to do. To someone who was ready to "go home", satisfied that his life was complete, and he enjoyed every part of it, in less than a month's time. I wonder if I would be so accepting of my circumstances if I were thrust into that position. My first thought was that no. I could not handle that news so graciously. Then I remembered tools and how we can make our life anything we want it to be. Our lives are in our control, until the day we cease to be. I am choosing to be in control of my life, to look for my opportunities, and to "Live every moment".

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