Today is your day.
Just for today.
Driving to Berkeley this morning with Warren Zevon’s Werewolves of London blaring from KFOG on my radio I was suddenly reminded of his recent death due to cancer which made me flash back to my father’s death from cancer eight years ago.
Sitting at the red light the thought crossed my mind that today is all I have. The things that trouble my soul about tomorrow may never come to pass. What am I doing with the today that I have? Do my troubles about tomorrow rob me of the joy of life today?
What matters most in my life? Do the people that I love, friends and family, absolutely know beyond a shadow of a doubt how much they mean to me? If tomorrow never comes will those I love know what they mean to me? Does my wife know that she lives deep in my heart and soul and that I often fall to my knees with gratitude for our love?
How ‘bout you? Are you taking life and those you love for granted? Is there somone you need to write or call? I don’t want to let the trivial crap of life to steal from the truly important. I must admit that it is difficult, but it is completely up to me to make certain that I guard my heart and my priorities and to focus on living today.
I don’t want to wait until tomorrow to express my love and gratitude to those who mean so much to me. I don’t want to take for granted the lives and friendships that God has allowed me to experience.
I don’t want to miss living today because I’m too busy being worried about tomorrow. I don't want to miss loving today because of something that happened yesterday.
I want to consume life today. I don’t want life to consume me.
6 Comments:
Thanks. I am thinking about ordering it today. I saw him in a small club about 12 years ago. He was outstanding.
Yes, there is something about living and consuming life and not being consumed by life.
Thanks for the comment!
Rick
Rick,
Great stuff. Thanks for the last line! I tend to live life on the defensive. One of my professors in grad school was famous for saying that he felt like a moving target in the arcade game of life. I've felt that before. Thanks for helping us refocus and attack life for all it's worth.
Interesting, brother. One question, though: what is being a Christian if not following Christ? God bless.
www.deathway.com
Great question Josh. Thanks. My point is that institutional Christianity seems to represent little of Jesus' primary message. The call to be his disciple requires and costs me everything. When I read the synoptics, I find Jesus' primary message to be one of ushering in the reign of God here and now. I find it much easier to "buy into" the moral code of Christianity taught here in America, but very difficult to lay my life on the line for God's reign here and now.
Nice one, man. Keep writing. You have edified me!
God Bless,
Chris
man...good words for us. I appreciate what you said to all of us who are emerging!
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