The reality of mortality.

This week has been relentless as far as news upon news of deaths and near-deaths reached us. A dear colleague of ours recently passed away because of the Big C. Yesterday, we went to the wake of the mom of one of our friends. There was also news earlier this week about one friend who had a medical emergency due to an allergy that almost ended in tragedy. We also got the sad news that our long-time gardener passed away yesterday due to a vehicular accident. He was on his way home from doing his gardening rounds in our village when he figured in an accident. The sad part about it is we never really got to share about God that much to him. Such is the nature of life. It is not ours to say how long or how short we shall live. A Medicare plan is always a good thing but this only takes care of the physical realm. It only addresses the realm that we see but what about the unseen realm? The word of God says that what is seen is temporal and what is unseen is eternal. I know that I draw comfort in the thought that our friends who have passed surrendered their lives to the Lord and that they are now in His loving care. I do have regrets though about our gardener. I know that we could have shared the gospel at least once. Unfortunately, the busyness of life got in the way. I have resolved since and instructed my kids as well to try to at least bless the water delivery boys who deliver water once a week, or the mailman or the cable guy collector whenever they come knocking at our door. A simple “Thank you. God bless you and Jesus loves you.” might not seem much but perhaps it might open up the opportunity for them to know the Lord as we know Him. You’ll never know…

Have a blessed weekend everyone. Go bless someone!