Lately I have been occupied with several things, often feel that time is slipping out of my hands. Not just the time, the months, the years, and
even the decades have gone bye. The
sense of belonging to a younger generation has long left me. The role models that I had looked up to for the
inspiration and strength have begun to depart and it scares me to hear someone
say "you are my role model"!
When I entered the ministry, I was in my late teen years, got married in
mid-twenties, and without much warning, here I stand staring at the soon
approaching mountain of fifty. Seeing our
son prepare for the university compels me to finish up my last remaining school
post. When the day comes, and it has
already come, when our son says goodbye for his college, me and my wife will
have to begin a new beginning, new journey that we are totally unprepared
for. For the last 19 years, three of us
have been the only family members we spent most of our time with. I left my family when Christ found me, and my
wife left her family the day I found her, and our son arrived two years
later. Ever since, three of us have
lived, laughed, cried and rejoiced together.
Faced unusual circumstances of life together; have over come dark days
and taken advantages of the bright ones together. But now, we have come to a crossroad once
again; it is still some months away, but I have already begun to feel the quietness
and the emptiness in the house when he would finally venture out to find his
own destiny; destiny that God has prepared for him.
Life
goes on, children get older, we get older, and I am getting older too is the
song by the Dixie Chicks that describes how we are afraid of changes. Well, I am not afraid of changes, but am just
amazed and surprised at the fact that we have arrived here so soon, so without
warning; it does not get to my mind that I have been married for 20 years, it
feels like yesterday. Of course early on
life, I had made up my mind to live each day as it comes and I am glad that I
made that decision. Yes there are
regrets too and given the chance I would like to change a few things but as a
whole I would walk the same road all over again. One thing is sure that twenty years down the
road, there will also be some regrets but I determine to make fewer mistakes
and make life more fulfilling each day. Time
goes on, life goes on, and once it is gone; there is no point of regrets. The only way to avoid regrets and create
memories is to live one day at time with Jesus.
Those of you out there, if you have Jesus in your life, you have all you
need to make each day a fulfilling one.
But those of you who don't know Jesus, then it is going to be much more
difficult to make sense of this painful world in which there are more regrets
than memories.
My life is well spent because
early on life, I found Jesus and he can make your life worth living too; he can take
away all your regrets and change them into something beautiful. Otherwise life goes on and the reality is
that it is going to go on and on even in eternity either in hell or in heaven -
the bitter truth. Without Christ the
beautiful life here on earth is one waste of time but with Christ, even the sorrows
of this world will be traded with joy divine!
Don’t let life go on with Christ.
