Today’s Guest Post is written by Sammy Abebiyi a college paster in Toledo. Check out Sammy’s Website here. You can also follow him on Twitter.
Because a friend of mine died in a plane crash, he got 3 minutes on the nightly news right before the weather… that’s 3 more ‘before-the-weather-report’ minutes than you and I will get when we kick the bucket.
When you die, people will; say nice things at your funeral, tweet ‘I miss you’s’ on your profile, send flowers to your loved ones and shed some tears BUT after a short while they ALL move on to the weather, the basketball game and watching ‘hide yo wife’ on you-tube.
The only ones that are stuck for a long time in the season of your death and can’t move on to normal everyday ‘poking their friends on face-book’ life are your spouse, kids, parents, closest friends and loved ones.
The irony is most of us spend much of our lives and time not only trying to impress those who will move on shortly after our death but we often disregard and take for granted those who will never be the same when we are gone.
What if you trade in living for the nice five minute speech your ‘buddy’ is gonna give at our funeral for living in a way that makes the time you have with your loved ones REALLY count?
Carpe Diem… [with those who will miss you the most when you die.]
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