I recently lost an old friend of almost 30 years. Someone once said “When we lose a friend in life, a bit of us dies”. I don’t know if that’s true, but it sure seems like it is. What is it about this life that’s so deceptive?
Like my friend, Tom, you work hard all your life to build a business, to get ahead, to lay up that nest egg, to relax someday and enjoy some of what you’ve sacrificed to accomplish and then you die in your 50’s… or younger! Didn’t Jesus say something about giving no thought to tomorrow? Friends, all we have is today, and there are no guarantees about all of today. When you lose a friend or loved one suddenly, it makes you think about your own check-out…it makes you want to call your friends and talk a while…or stop by and see them, never knowing when it might be our last visit! God help us to stop assuming that we have tomorrow because tomorrow’s assumptions can become today’s thief. Jesus was right about tomorrow…it consumes too much of our thought. Who are we trying to fool? We only have today. So pick up that phone or drive out of your way a bit, to greet an old friend today. You won’t be sorry you did.