Monday, November 30, 2009
Life is SO Short...Leave a LEGACY!
There's this song by Casting Crowns, call 'Who Am I'. The first line of the chorus goes like this:
"I am a flower quickly fading, here today and gone tomorrow..."
Our life is like a flower (below). This is the flower of the peanut plant. Nice right? But it will not last forever. To us, life on earth may be long, but in actual fact, it is not that long, in the eyes of God.
Went to a friend's grandma's wake last week. Inevitably, all of us some how wish that it'll never happen to our love ones. Death is almost an avoided subject. Given a choice, no one would want to think about it. Right?
As I attended the memorial service, I can't help but be reminded of how short life really is. Before we know it, we will be in our 40s, then 50s, progressing into 60s. By God's grace, my friend's grandma lived till an age 87 years old.
Although we have the power to make choices, and we do have free-will, how long we an live on this earth, can never be decided by us. Ultimately, we have no control over certain things in our lives. (Can be quite scary and uncertain...ya?)
In the midst of the service, I started to imagine things. I imagine...if the person in the coffin was me...how would things be. What will people say about me during the service? What will people remember me for? Would I have enough time with my love ones? What would I have achieved by then? How would you feel when death was so close to you?
As I run these questions through my mind, I realised that death is very real in life, and it's a matter of time all of us have to face it. To me death is leaving this earth to another place; time on earth has run out like an expired ticket, and God bought a new ticket for me to transit into heaven for an eternal holiday. It's the end, but it's also a new beginning.
On that day when our ticket on earth has expired, these things will mean nothing:
How much money we have in the bank...
How many nights we spent in the pub...
How glasses of beer we ever drank...
How many boyfriends/girlfriends we ever had..
How many times we proved our parents wrong..
How many days we spent working...
How many As we got in our exams..
But things that really matters....
How have we blessed the people around us with the money in our bank?
How many nights we spent lending a listening ear to a troubled soul?
How have we impacted our classmates/colleagues, so much they'll remember us for the good we've done?
How much effort have we put into letting our love ones know we care for them n treasure them?
We always live life being so confident that there'll be 'tomorrow'. What if there really is no tomorrow, and today is the last?
With the year ending and brand new year coming, I thought it'll be good to make a few decisions, so that in the coming year I can live my life to the fullest.
I want to spend more time cultivating my gifts and talents, and then use it to benefit others around me. I believe God has given us gifts, and we can't just sit and do nothing with it. There are so many problems in the world..of course we can't save the whole world...but we can make a difference to people around us.
I will also spend more time with my love ones. Really important to let them know I love and treasure them. It's never too late to tell someone you love him/her.
I've made some decisions....how about you? =)
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