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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Tiger Woods.
Does he deserve forgiveness? Will you, if you haven’t, forgive him?
Or is he unforgivable? The lying, cheating, dirty, no good scum of the earth. Is that it?
Tempting isn’t it? Difficult, isn’t it? Will we find it impossible?
All things are possible for him who trusts in the Lord. Is that a figment of my imagination, or did I read or hear about this somewhere?
Okay, so here’s my final answer, and it comes straight from Jesus’ mouth, “Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone.”
Is there Joy in dying? Is there Joy in death?
There certainly is Joy in birth and obviously Joy in being born. Right?
In the past 30 days, I’ve been exposed to nearly one dozen deaths. And these deaths have involved people close to me, or people close to people I’m close to. Ya with me?
Just yesterday, a good friend told me how peaceful the death of her family member was.
It started with tragic news, and there was little time to accept and deal with the impending reality.
And yet in the end, she spoke of it being Peaceful. Joyful.
Perhaps, with a little (or a lot) planning, death will be something we don’t fear, but something we view as simply part of life. Not to be feared, but to be embraced.
Maybe then we can look forward to it. Joyfully.
Have been following a friend’s recent journey with cancer. Her brother-in-law, who lives with her and her husband, was recently diagnosed with cancer – seems like less than a month ago.
Waking at 3:30AM this morning, with coffee in hand, fired up the laptops for the morning routine. Checked several social media “Favorites”, including Facebook.
My friend posted this update regarding her beloved brother-in-law: “He walked softly out the door with Jesus a few minutes ago”.
Moments like these are constant reminders that life is fragile, and an incomprehensible gift.
That life is painfully challenging and gloriously wonderful.
The Autumnal equinox comes and goes every September. It happened again yesterday. Most people never notice.
One might even ask, “Who cares”?
Realizing this while eating lunch at the Salt Lake International Airport, I took a moment to reflect on the changing of seasons and the passage of time.
That’s what these seasonal milestones do, they mark time in a bigger picture than seconds, minutes, days or weeks.
Seasons. Four every year. Big deal.
Several friends have recently found out they don’t have much time left. Life is seasonal too. We’re born. We live. We pass on.
Does anyone even notice?
“What would you do differently if you had ten years to live? Not weeks or months, but a decade”?
Start soon. The next Autumnal equinox is right around the corner…..
I miss Randy Pausch.
Why?
Because he inspired me, and countless others, to rethink the way we live our daily lives.
His battle with Pancreatic cancer ended one year ago today. He was 47 when he said goodbye to his wife and three children, all under six years old.
He was fully aware he was going to die, and he used that, I believe, to find an elevated reason to live.
Wanna know a secret about this whole scenario?
We are all dying.
The challenge for most of us? We don’t use this fact to find an elevated reason to live.
Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂