“Everybody knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. ...

Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, ‘Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Most of us walk around as if we’re sleepwalking. We really don’t experience the world fully because we’re half asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.”

~ Morrie Schwartz (Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom)

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From everlasting to everlasting you are God.
You return man to dust
and say, “Return, O children of man!”

For a thousand years in your sight
are but as yesterday when it is past,
or as a watch in the night.

You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning:
in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.

...

So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.
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Psalm 90

Lord,
Help me to be the person you want me to be and to do all you want me to do. So that if today is the day, I am ready.
Amen