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IF I HAD MY LIFE
TO LIVE OVER
- by
Erma Bombeck (Written after she found out she was dying from cancer) --------------------------------------
(Psa 90:12 KJV)
So teach us to
number our days,
that we
may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
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Here I sit, in
my circle of toys,
While death is
busy kicking down the door.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE
OVER...
I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day. I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage. I would have talked less and listened more. I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded. I would have eaten the popcorn in the 'good' living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace. I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth. I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed. I would have sat on the lawn with my children and not worried about grass stains. I would have cried and laughed less while watching television-and more while watching life. I would never have bought anything just because it was practical, wouldn't show soil, or was guaranteed to last a lifetime. Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle. When my kids kissed me impetuously, I would never have said, "Later. Now go get washed up for dinner." There would have been more "I love you's." More "I'm sorry's" ...But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it ... live it...and never give it back. Stop sweating the small stuff. Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what. Instead, let's cherish the relationships we have with those who DO love us. Let's
think about what God HAS blessed us with.
And what we are doing each day to promote ourselves mentally, physically, emotionally, as well as spiritually. Life is too short to let it pass you by. We only have one shot at this and then it's gone. I hope you all have a blessed day. In memory of Erma Bombeck who lost her fight with cancer. --Some Bible Verses to Ponder-- (Psa 39:2-8 KJV)
I was dumb with
silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was
stirred.
{3} My heart was
hot within me,
while I was musing the
fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
{4} LORD, make me
to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is;
that I may know how
frail I am.
{5} Behold, thou hast
made my days as an handbreadth;
and mine age is as
nothing before thee:
verily every man
at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
{6} Surely every man
walketh in a vain show:
surely they are
disquieted in vain:
he heapeth up riches,
and knoweth not who shall gather them.
{7} And now,
Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
{8} Deliver me
from all my transgressions:
make me not the
reproach of the foolish.
(Eccl 9:9-12 KJV)
Live joyfully
with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity,
which he hath given
thee under the sun,
all the days of thy
vanity: for that is thy portion in this life,
and in thy labour which
thou takest under the sun.
{10} Whatsoever
thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might;
for there is no work,
nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
{11} I returned, and
saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the
strong,
neither yet bread to
the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of
skill;
but time and chance
happeneth to them all.
{12} For man also
knoweth not his time:
as the fishes that are
taken in an evil net,
and as the birds that
are caught in the snare;
so are the sons of men
snared in an evil time,
when it falleth
suddenly upon them.
(James 4:13-17 KJV)
Go to [think about it] now, ye
that say,
To day or to morrow we will go into such a
city,
and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get
gain:
{14} Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow.
For what is your
life?
It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and
then vanisheth away.
{15} For that ye ought to say,
If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
{16} But now ye rejoice in your
boastings:
all such rejoicing is evil.
{17} Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not,
to him it is sin.
(James 5:1-9 KJV)
Go to [think
about it] now, ye rich men,
weep and howl for your
miseries that shall come upon you.
{2} Your riches are
corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
{3} Your gold and
silver is cankered[corroded];
and the rust of them
shall be a witness against you,
and shall eat
your flesh as it were fire.
Ye have heaped
treasure together for the last days.
{4} Behold, the hire of
the labourers who have reaped down your fields,
which is of you kept
back by fraud, crieth:
miesand the cries of
them which have reaped
are entered into the
ears of the Lord of sabaoth [a military reference to God].
{5} Ye have lived in
pleasure on the earth, and been wanton[self-indulgent,
immoral];
ye have nourished
your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
{6} Ye have condemned
and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
{7} Be patient
therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.
Behold, the husbandman
waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth,
and hath long
patience for it,
until he receive the
early and latter rain.
{8} Be ye also patient;
stablish your hearts:
for the coming of the
Lord draweth nigh[near].
{9} Grudge not one
against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned:
behold, the judge
standeth before the door.
(Eph 5:14-21 KJV)
Wherefore he
saith,
Awake thou that
sleepest, and arise from the dead,
and Christ shall give
thee light.
{15} See then that ye
walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
{16} Redeeming the
time, because the days are evil.
{17} Wherefore be
ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
{18} And be not drunk
with wine, wherein is excess;
but be filled with the
Spirit;
{19} Speaking to
yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making
melody in your heart to the Lord;
{20} Giving thanks
always for all things unto God and the Father
in the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ;
{21} Submitting
yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
(Luke 12:40 KJV)
Be ye therefore ready
also:
for the Son of
man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
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