I am pondering the year slipping from 2017 into 2018, and I keep thinking that there were people this time last year who had such great hopes and plans for this year but through tragic loss aren't here. And there are people who are living with the reality they may not be here for next New Year's Eve. And I keep asking myself one question:
If I only had this year, how would I spend it?
Praying for each of us that we spend it well,
not just for ourselves...
...but for those who love us and need us to spend it well for them and with them...
...for those who need us to spend it well because we will slip into and out of their lives in a moment or a day or a span...because of what we leave behind when we leave their presence...
...because of the ripples in time our lives leave even before they are ended...
...because eternity is built with seconds in the day, not years in a lifetime...
...because when it is over...the year and our lives...we want what is left to bring tears of joy because of what we have been and not tears of sadness because of what we haven't.
May 2018 be a year well spent.
Blessings,
Jerri L Kelley
www.jerrikelley.com
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