I just watched Pride of the Yankees - that delightful forties film about the Yankees baseball star, Lou Gehrig. It's one of the very few movies that actually make me cry. And it really made me think, as well.
Because, unlike Lou Gehrig, most of us don't have any idea when we are going to die. We often live monotonously, saying "I'll just get to that tomorrow" or "I have plenty of time for that!"
The truth is, we have no idea if we have time for that. Only God knows the number of our days, and because of that, we need to live every day to the fullest we possibly can. I know I sound like a broken record. But if you were told you were going to die in three years, wouldn't you try to get angry less, and to love people more, and to not procrastinate as much?
Like that song by Tim McGraw; "Live Like You Were Dying." Like Lou Gehrig, who was told he didn't have long to live, so he took each moment seriously and carefully, and put all of the love and joy and thought that he could into each day.
All that said, we shouldn't live in fear of the day we die. After all, as Christians, "for to me to live is Christ and to die is gain" (Philippians 1:21). And "for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control"(2 Timothy 1:7). We have one beautiful life on earth, and we shouldn't waste it by putting things off and letting moments slip by.
That's what Pride of the Yankees taught me.
Happy Sunday, folks. :)
-Sarah
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yaya! this is so true...that's what i was thinking when i watched it. :)
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