Monday, May 4, 2009

Live Like You Were Dying

So our church has been doing a series since Easter called Live Like You Were Dying. The first day of the series the pastor posed this question, "What would you do if you had 30 days left to live?" The question makes you think. It made me think am living like the person I want to be? It made me think about my family and kids and friends.
Last Sunday the topic was Forgiveness. That can be a tuff subject for anyone. But it is also one we can all relate to. We all have been hurt at some point in our lives and face the issue of giving forgiveness. Or we all at some point have hurt someone else and we have needed to seek forgiveness. Either way its a tuff subject. Something our pastor pointed out was that not giving forgiveness only hurts oursleves more. We become angry and bitter. Sometimes we say "I forgive you" but do we truly let it go? Bitterness is not our friend and steals precious moments of our life and wastes time. I have seen bitterness and its not pretty. I know that I don't want to go through life being a bitter critter!!
God did show us the ultimate forgiveness by sending His Son to take our place and pay our debt. That is awesome for so many reasons. I didn't deserve God's forgiveness but He did it anyway. The least I could do is try to give the same forgiveness to others.
Life IS short. I think in our minds we don't think of ourselves as dying or I could die tomorrow. But there is always that chance that we might not have a tomorrow. So I say love big, forgive always, and live like you were dying! Because we dont know what tomorrow brings.
Now I pose the question to all of you who are reading this, what would you do if you were given 30 days to live?

I would love to hear your thoughts!
P.S- this is a great series and if anyone is interested in hearing any of it go to Palmvalley.org

1 comment:

  1. I felt that way since I heard Garth Brooks sing: "If Tomorrow Never Comes" in it he says, "if tomorrow never comes, will she know how much I love her? Did I try in every way, to show her everyday, that she's my only one...." And from then on I try to think that way. Nice post. :)

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