It is either really early in the morning or really late at night, I can’t sleep, thoughts of people life and death keep running through my head. My mind is racing with thoughts of how I have no control over anything whatsoever. It seems this year we have been put in some tight situations where death is staring you down and it’s in those moments you realize there is a God and you have no control. The fact that I am taking a breath into my lungs at this moment is a gift.
Today we saw a guy being pulled from the ocean lifeless with no movement just dead. As they drug him from the water they carelessly twisted his body around and drug him on the sand. His eyes where rolled back in his head. They flipped him over and some white foam came out of his mouth. The lifeguards didn’t even do CPR. They carried him really fast and shoved him in the back of van or something.
I remember watching his friends as they realized their friend was gone. Nothing but terror on their faces. In a moment life was over for some young guy…
Life is short and no matter how tightly we pack our schedule we have absolutely no control over anything. God is in control and we can’t change the past or the future but what we have is the now. Right here right now. Jesus said don’t think of tomorrow because tomorrow has enough worries of it’s own. If we could truly live each day in “the moment” we would be truly alive. We often times live to much hating ourselves for the past or hoping for a better future. But what about now?
