Life Happens Fast
- Ally Bachanos
- Jun 6, 2015
- 2 min read
My youngest graduates from high school this weekend. I’m writing this while on my way to a friend’s funeral.Life happens fast.We prayed for Brock for years. By the time he came, we had given up on having a third. When he was born, he came about six weeks early and less than five pounds, but was full of energy and perfectly healthy. Now he is getting ready for college. On graduation weekend, you are flooded with memories.And then there is this funeral.Jeff was only sixty-one. He was my daughter-in-law’s father, and a friend. We are heading up to Wisconsin for his visitation and then funeral. I’m sure there will be poster boards filled with pictures of him doing the things he loved and surrounded by people he loved. His life will be represented by the people he is leaving behind and a room full of pictures. But he is no longer here. And some day, not long from now, that will be me…and you.Like it was yesterday that our graduating seniors were born, it will be tomorrow when life will be over. Life happens fast. Every moment is precious and every day we live quickly becomes a memory.The older I get, the more this matters to me. I realize that I have maybe fifteen to twenty good years of ministry left. I don’t care about a bucket list, I care about making the greatest impact with my life, in this life, that I can. I know, life happens fast.So what are you doing with today? You will most likely use the time you have left the way you are using the time you have now. Are there some priority reordering in order? Are there some changes that need to be made? Do you want to die the way you are living today?Because this life is about preparing for eternity. This life determines things that will last forever. The things we live for and how we live for those things is so important. Life is not only precious because it is fleeting, it is precious because it impacts eternity.So I ask again, are there priorities that need to be reordered? Are there changes that need to be made? Are you living the way you want to die?
