Life Is Too Short

Life Is Too Short

 

While preparing to speak at a convention, a man wanted his wife to go out for sandwiches while he got ready for the event. He requested for a chicken sandwich with no mayonnaise. He made sure she understood his order, even to the point of her replying, "Yep, I got it. N-o-o-o-o-mayo." When the sandwich arrived, however, he found it smothered with mayonnaise. His wife seemed totally to have forgotten his request. He had launched into a tirade of "you never listen – you only care about yourself" statements. Tension filled the air in the hotel room for a full hour before he finally asked his wife to forgive him. Later that evening after he had spoken, a man came to him and said, "It's lovely to see how much you and your wife love each other. Treasure one another!" He walked away with tears in his eyes. A woman standing nearby said, "He lost his wife last month. She died of a heart attack. They had been married only two years." The speaker thought - How would I feel if the last thing I got to say to my wife was that she blew my sandwich order?

 

What was the last thing you said to your loved one? Express gratitude for their lives rather than irritation at their faults. Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Psalm 100:3