It seems I've heard so many songs prompting us to live each day as our last, to live this life like it's the only one you've got, to go for what you want when you want it, and I think they're right - but what they want you to go after is wrong.
I could live this life like its the only one I've got in two ways: going after all the world has to offer, money, fame, possessions, OR live like I had one chance to change something for good, one chance to have influence, one chance to really live with no guilt, and no regrets either.
One life. Will I be someone who does things to please man, or God? Will I forget who I am and what I am called to to? Will I hurt those who hurt me? Or will I live a life worthy of praise?
I believe that I was created to be an answer. Not the answer to every problem (too much stress) but an answer. I believe that I am here to love, and so I shall, even when it hurts, to the best of my ability. I believe that a life filled with honesty and truth has it's own reward, and that a good name is of more value than gold.
So here I am. Living. Standing for truth. And struggling. Hate is easy, love takes courage. Content with who I am, always growing, ever learning. I have fallen short. I have been unkind, unmerciful, ungracious...but never unloved.
What profit is it to gain a whole world, yet lose your soul? Lose yourself?
Saw a sign out front a church last week "live like you were dying". No thank you very much. I'm gonna live like I'm gonna be around for a long, long time. Make the most of each day and opportunity yes, without guilt to be felt in the future.
Live this life like you were....alive.
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