Just a Parcel

Just a Parcel                              9-16-2014

By John W. Vander Velden

 

 

When we think of all that we have, those things that make us, we consider the objects acquired and sometimes the items lost, but too seldom we contemplate the most important thing we have been given…our life.  For each of us has received that gift…just a parcel of time. 

Should we dwell upon the years behind or worry that the number of years ahead grow shorter.  Too often those thoughts creep into our consciousness, but I say allow regrets to remain in the past, for all have memories of the things we wish we had done differently.  And to stare into futures mists, concerned with difficulties yet unborn, does us no good.  Enough problems come, there is no need to fear imagined situations.  For to wallow in the past or fear the future steals from the now! 

We remain here among our neighbors, friends and especially family for a time, and the number of years we have been allotted, we do not know.  But He who gives good gifts, has presented us with this parcel…just a parcel of time.  Whether the bulk of that parcel lies before us or behind, whether that parcel is days or decades, it is a gift of great worth.  For each moment contains possibilities…grand possibilities that present themselves…or grand possibilities that need to be sought.  Though we have allowed many to slip between our fingers like sand, countless others await.  So draw a breath, thank the GOD that made you, for this day, smile, and take hold of this bit of your life and seek the challenge to do something.  And though it might seem that “something” is meaningless, be assured it is not!  For the lowly brick seems of little value, yet when stacked, brick by brick, grand edifices stand…depending upon each stone.    

For our lives is so much more than a measure of time, and yet time is one of the greatest gifts we have been given.  Time is an element we share with those around us, should we not reach out to do and to care, to use the thousands of moments of that gift in the millions of possibilities that remain before us.  As I stand awestruck facing the dawning sky, I thank GOD for this day…just a parcel of my life he has given, and pray that I use that gift well.

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