How to live..........

I believe that if we want to know how to live, we first have to decide how we want to die.


I have always known that I didn’t want to die with regrets. So I imagined myself on my deathbed and I wondered what I needed to do, to die in peace.

I knew that I wanted to be able to die knowing that my children would be okay. That they could take care of themselves and each other. I wanted to know that they too, would be with me in Heaven someday. So knowing these things, I’ve lived my life accordingly. I raised my children to be independent, intelligent, happy, healthy, responsibile adults. I’ve taught them to value and take care of each other. I’ve taught them about God and Christ and salvation.

I have a goal in life; I never want to hurt anyone . I didn’t want to die remembering the pain in someone’s eyes. I didn’t want to die feeling as if I never lived. I didn’t want to die feeling as if I didn’t make a difference. And as I thought about all the things I needed to do to die in peace, I realized that the Bible spelled them out perfectly. And isn’t our God amazing? Not only does God teach us how to live life to its fullest, but by living our life to its fullest, we also get the added benefit of dying in peace.

The ironic part is that I didn’t figure all of this out until my 40’s and when I did, I realized that I will indeed have one regret when I die and that is that I tried for so long to live my life without God.
gently,laura