Today I Give Thanks for Everything – and Everyone – Who Proclaims It’s Not Too Late!
“You can either get busy living or get busy dying.”
- Stephen King, “The Shawshank Redemption”
Well, the tiny dill plant pictured here has made its decision known: It decided to get busy living! Despite the below freezing temperature of last week, this little one made its choice to get on with the business of life.
Perhaps there’s a lesson for me and for everyone who feels it’s too late to start something new. Whether that’s a new career in one’s forties, starting a new volunteer ministry at 58, learning Chinese in one’s sixties, or getting physically fit after 70. Even finding true love in one’s nineties! I’ve watched others do these things – and a few of them I’ve managed myself.
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
- Mary Oliver, from “The Summer Day”
The one true thing about life is this: We will die. Plant or animal, we die. Only while living, do we have the chance to get busy with life. So…what will I do with my “one wild and precious life”? What will you do with yours?
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