The text message typed on a friends phone and handed to you in church, then the phone call. The shock. The numbness that clouds your mind as you try your best to grasp the information that is coming through the little black object at your face!
There is nothing like the passing of a loved one, to put ones life into perspective. My uncle at the age of 49, living his normal life, and suddenly gone!
For one thing, it challenges me to not take for granted the people that are in my life. Do, I let them know how much I appreciate them? Do I build relationships, take time for people? I don't know when the time will come that I wish I could and they won't be here.
It's when one is face to face with someone who has just stepped into eternity that the reality of what really matters, hits home in a fresh way. So, I make money, focus on passing issues, get caught up with my world, my wants and wishes. But held up to the dazzling light of eternity, those things suddenly shrivel into oblivion. I scrap through the ashes at my feet for the thing that will shine and glisten with lasting value, the solid substance that I can carry with me into my "real life" (eternity). I find it to be relationships.
Relationship, first of all with God, and then relationship with others... My heart on the path to eternal bliss, while encouraging, blessing and bringing along others on the same path!
Wow! Life really is pretty uncomplicated! . . . but how easy to loose focus!
