You Can Only Live Now

Rascal Flatts has a song that gets me every time.  Every time.  "I spent the morning at an old friend's grave, Flowers and Amazing Grace, He was a good man, He spent his whole life spinnin' his wheels, Never knowin' how the real thing feels, He never took a chance or took the time to dance."  Its not their most popular song and I don't think it ever got any radio time. Can't say I'd wanna hear it driving to work in the morning. It's Wednesday, I'm minding my own business and them Wham! A song about death.  Yet somehow when it comes on my CD I can't seem to hit the button to make it stop.  I cry.  Every time.  And I smile.  Every time. Because it reminds me of my friend Laura.  Can I be honest?  She had the BEST FUNERAL I've ever been to.  Laura was young.  She was the opposite of the R.F. song.  SHE LIVED.  Their wasn't a moment you could spend in her presence when she wasn't also in your presence.  You get me?  She lived in the NOW.  Her goodbye party was an extension of her life.  She loved her some Jesus and never seemed to forget that she belonged to Him.  That we all belonged to Him.  People were important to her.  Whomever it was.  I'm beginning to ramble but the point of today is to live NOW.  Yesterday is gone.  Even if you are dealing today with the choices of yesterday you still can't change yesterday.  And guess what?  Tomorrow is no guarantee.  You may not be able to apologize tomorrow, or say "I love you" tomorrow, or spend longer on goodbye hugs tomorrow, or pray with them tomorrow, or share you heart tomorrow, or...

So...soak in today.  right now.  every moment is just that, a moment, then another comes.  Enjoy the video and let it wash over you. God has a plan but the only part you can play in it is right...now...ok, now...aaeeehhhh, now...wait for it...now... ;)