As my husband and I were driving home after having dinner at my mom’s house, we began discussing our life.
We talked about times spent at a former fellowship and how our pastor died. We did not expect him to die nor did we anticipate the members would divide and depart just a couple of years after his death. In fact, the entire church eventually folded.
We talked about friends and acquaintances who were a part of our every day lives, and now we hardly see or share a conversation with them.
We reminisced about our grandparents, his dad and brother, our former neighbors and childhood teachers whom have departed this life and we were left only with memories in our hearts that they truly existed.
How about you? Do you remember your grammar, junior high, high school, and college friends? You know your “ace cum booms“? Those BFF’s you thought you would hang out with forever? The ones you shared your deepest and darkest secrets with? The friend you talked to all night and never tired? The ones you fought and cried with or listened to their woes?
How about the ones you were friends with since the second, third or fourth grade? Then one day you realized each of you had outgrown the other. Many of those friendships eventually ended.
Do you remember your first kiss? Do you even know where that person is now? Are they dead or alive? Live in your same city or moved on to another location oblivious to you?
Can you recall the day you met your spouse? Did you ever dream or see yourself married to them? Even if you did, did life turn out the way you expected it?
Wow, these thoughts and our conversation brought to mind so many people, events and bitter sweet memories I had not thought about for a very long time.
I began to feel some kind of way–a little melancholy about some bad choices I made, while reminding myself I made many good ones too–those that changed me and my life’s perspective for the better.
Today I encourage you to cherish your time spent with others no matter the circumstance. Respect those relationships and don’t regret mistakes, missed opportunities or misunderstandings. Take the time to live in the moment. Stop rushing through encounters you don’t like or understand. Pay attention to the lessons you are being taught about yourself and others. Don’t apologize for loving too hard. Forgive those who have taken advantage of you. Free and release others you’ve held in bondage far too long. Learn what is necessary and then move on.
As you continue to mature, allow others to see you fail. Be transparent. Don’t get stuck on the stupid stuff. Some of the people and things you have in your present life (including spouse, other family members, place of employment, etc.) are here today, but gone tomorrow–becoming a mere thought from your past.
It’s ok to laugh loud, love much and live hopeful–I mean really live in the moment!!! Life is only a dash. Oftentimes too short and vanishes quickly. Whatever you do, do it on purpose (this is one of my favorites sayings)!!!
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