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In many occasions we think that life and youth are things that will last forever. We do not value the day to day as a gift that God give us. A few months ago I decided to work as a volunteer in a nursing home and I believe that God gave me the opportunity to see up close a period of life that we all will one day go through. When I observed the elders, many remembered nothing about their past, they were in their own inner world as if there was nothing around them. Others who were in better condition did routine exercises, were offered a religious service and went out a few times but were there without their partners, without their children, without their grandchildren, surrounded by perfect strangers, without their houses, cars or luxuries which they may have been accustomed to because they are mostly retired professionals. While watching them I asked me: Where are those things these people fought for all their lives? Another question that I asked myself is: Would they have enjoyed all that they fought for? or Have they lived as a machines to work and produce, thinking that they would have a lifetime to enjoy it? After thinking that they could have enjoy everything, they are left in perfect solitude and without anything.
In another occasion I had the opportunity to meet a lady who had an open heart surgery and had a pacemaker. Time later doctors found a tumor in her breast so she had a problem, she could not receive radio therapy because she has the pacemaker, but if they took out her pacemaker to operate and give her the radio therapy, she was at risk of heart attack. So she decided to leave the pacemaker in, but she did not imagine was that the cancer would grow too fast. When she showed me I was in shock to see how big was that tumor and her anguish to know that soon the day of her dead would come. I asked myself. Was it worth everything she got now death was approaching and she could not take with her anything she had? Now she just needed peace that only God could give. I could not find words to tell her but I reflected that life is only one and we should not leave for tomorrow what we can do today.
On another occasion I had to give a friend the news that her father had died and what I remember the most from that moment is that she cried bitterly and told me " I never told him how much I loved."
Certainly we must be responsible people and earn our daily bread and fight for our goals but we should not devote all our time to work and get material things because when we open our eyes life has escaped us and we have not enjoyed a beautiful dawn, our children, our partner, a beautiful sunset, our pets and a beautiful day with God.
At the moment of truth the most important is our relationship with God because our walk in this world is temporary but God has promised us a new land where everything will be perfect, where there will be no weeping or death and that is where we should aspire to be. In this world we must grasp the hand of God and enjoy each day. the things of yesterday have already passed and tomorrow we do not know how will come, we will live the present according to the will of God. Let's enjoy it from the moment we get up, thanking God for the opportunity to live. Enjoy each moment of each day instead of seeing the negative. Let us focus our view in the positive side of each thing making each day a delight for us and for those around us. For when the days of eldery or those bad days of illness come, let's not look our past and say I have no contemplation in them. On the other hand when looking back we can say thank you God for the days of youth, for the days of raising my children, for the moments enjoyed with my partner and for the days of life that you gave me because I knew how to use them and now when I remember them give me strength and energy to continue the battle.
God bless you and give you the wisdom to live one day at a time and to enjoy things that seem insignificant because then those may be things that we long to have lived.
Luke 12(16-20) Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: " The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. And he thought within himself, saying What shall I do since I have no room to store my crops? So he said , I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. And I will say to my soul , "Soul you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink and be merry." but God said to him, "Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?"
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