A Lifetime to Prove It

"It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it."  (unknown)



I can remember when I was still preschool age, standing in my front yard with my sister.  The wind was blowing fiercely and the season was autumn.  We were standing together facing into the wind and holding hands.  It was as if we were ready to face life and all its challenges and somehow we would do it together and support each other.  We looked at each other and promised each other we would get married one day.  That was before we understood brothers and sisters couldn't marry. That was before we discovered that the opposite sex was "ucky" and that we really had different interests.  It was before she became ill with cancer.  It was before she died at the young age of twelve.  As she became more and more ill we became more distant. She wasn't up to living life to its fullest and there were many days when she was grumpy or she disrupted our family's life patterns.  On the other hand all of life seemed to be before me and I was anxious to get on with it.  Yes, I regret being too full of myself to be there more for her.  And so the life lesson is simply this:  How often are you too full of yourself and your agenda to be there for those you love when they need you?  How easy it is for the heat of the moment to take over.  How difficult it can be to put ourselves aside.  But these are the things that will count when we take the "End of Life" test.  They will count much more than the "Bucket List."

Take a moment to show someone you love them today.