Earlier this week I could not sleep and was surfing the channels. I came across a movie of which I do not know the name of. It starred Latifa and was about a everyday woman who worked at a department store. Like most people she had dreams and she kept ideas about them in a scrap book called 'Possibilities'. Through a series of events she found out she had a rare medical condition that only gave her 3-4 weeks to live. She cashed in her stocks and bonds, withdrew all her money and started to follow many of her 'possibilities'. I was not able to see the end so I do not know what happened but it really gave me pause to think. What would I do if I knew that I was only going to live 3-4 weeks? What would I do differently? How would my priorities change? How would I be able to make every second count? This line of thought begged the bigger question: I really do not know if I have 3-4 seconds, minutes, hours, days months, years. Taking the worst case scenario, why not prioritize, breath, live as if there was so little left? Why do I have to be dying to realize the value of those I love, the salvation of those I love, the longing to be together in heaven, to share my heart with those who matter, to know that I am doing all that God wants me to do while here one earth? A death sentence in this way would be liberating but do I really want it to come to that before I realize what is most important. So based in this premise.....What would you do?
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