There is a popular song from Tim McGraw "Live like you were dying." When this song came out a few years back I liked the beat but I didn't listen much to the lyrics. Now this song has led me to a blog topic.
We take so many things for granted. One thing that we should never take for granted is the people in our lives that mean so much, and the pleasures of life that we have grown so used to expecting. I read an article that really opened my eyes to this. It opened my eyes to the idea that less is more. Spending time with those we love and doing the things we love should not be put on hold until the perfect time. Because the reality is there is never a perfect time. The time is now. We don't need to wait for the perfect circumstance, the perfect opportunity or the perfect time. DON'T WAIT.
After reading the article and spending the day at a family reunion, this blog topic become something I needed to get on paper. Don't wait to tell a person you love them. Don't wait to share how much they mean to you. Don't wait to travel. If you wait until you retire, you may not feel like traveling or you may not be here at all. Don't wait to start a project you have been wanting to work on. Don't wait to make life changes that are risky. Don't wait to play with your children after all the chores are done (because they are never done). Don't wait to leave a job when you dread going everyday. Don't wait to make things right with your family and God.
I knew without a doubt before my dad left this earthly world that he knew how much I loved him. I have no regrets about my relationship with him. That is one thing that brings me peace. When someone passes suddenly we don't get to make amends. "DON'T WAIT." Make amends and enjoy life now.
My challenge for you is to think about the song and the lyrics below "Live like you were dying." Do you have something that you need to say to someone? Do you have a passion for something and you are waiting for the "right" time to do it? Once you start looking at the most important things in your life, you realize it is not things. We don't want to look back and wish we would have said something or done something different. Take the risk and don't wait.
I was in my early forties
With a lot of life before me
When a moment came that stopped me on a dime
I spent most of the next days, looking at the x-rays
Talking bout the options and talking bout sweet time
I asked him when it sank in
That this might really be the real end
How's it hit 'cha when you get that kind of news?
Man, what'd ya do?
And he said
I went skydiving
I went rocky mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denyin'
And he said, Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'
He said, I was finally the husband
That most the time I wasn't
And I became a friend, a friend would like to have
And all of a sudden goin' fishin'
Wasn't such an imposition
And I went three times that year I lost my dad
Well I, I finally read the good book
And I took a good long hard look
At what I'd do if I could do it all again
And then
I went skydiving
I went rocky mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denyin'
And he said, Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'
Like tomorrow was a gift
And ya got eternity to think about what to do with it
What did you do with it?
What did I do with it?
What would I do with it?
Skydiving
I went rocky mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I watched an eagle as it was flyin'
And he said, Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'
