Life is meant to live and live it righteously knowing the Lord with love, joy, peace and respect to others. There’s good times, sad times and trying times. We never know when it will be our time to go home to the Lord. Scriptures declare God breathed the breath of life into us and we became a living soul, Genesis 2:7. In death that breath goes right back to God. God exhaled the breath of life into us, and it’s like he then inhales when we die.

Too many times we take our lives and that of others for granted. We only realize just how precious life is after someone passes away or we are told the c-word (cancer) or other life threatening desease, then our lives flashes before our eyes.With all honesty, I was once one who did exactly that, take life for granted, but now I know better.

I don’t attend funerals simply because I see the dead. I come home and bring back with me their faces in my thoughts of how they use to be and then I can’t get the picture out my mind till it begins affecting my dreams and terrifying me. Emotionally distressed all that is left in me is I coulda or should of, the guilt haunts me. I learn to say my goodbyes to everyone I love by leaving nothing unspoken, honoring and validating them while they are here. If I didn’t make it to see you when you were alive, please I am not coming to your funeral to see your lifeless body. I believe in God so I know you’re not there in the flesh anymore, you are risen to be with the father.

We have to learn to honor the people we care about while they are alive so that they may rest in peace and we have no regrets, so we also can have peace. Just remember death doesn’t discriminate against age, it can happen to anyone at any age and unexpectedly.