Life Goes Fast

Life goes by so very fast. I am so guilty of thinking that the day, the week, the month is never going to end but then poof it's gone and you can't get it back. All you get to take with you into the next day is the memories of the one's before.

I tell you this because I am sitting here looking at the snow forecast for the weekend and thinking, "winter is NEVER going to end!" I then read on someone's fb post that they are praying for a peaceful end to their loved one's life. Perspective for me.

Life goes fast...winter IS going to end and the only thing we'll take from it are the memories of the days that we were snowed in, or the extra time we spent in the car with our kids because the roads were slowing people down, the cute hats and mittens we put our little ones in, the lazy weekend because it's too cold and snowy to even try to venture out.

Life goes fast...another friend is posting about her parent's 43rd wedding anniversary while her brother posts pictures of the years throughout their marriage. I bet the wedding day never seemed like it would come, the pregnancies a feeling that never ending bulging tummy, illnesses and healing that may have occurred through the years that seemed like they were going to last forever and yet, they have pushed through and are here to make more memories this day and perhaps think, "where has the time gone?"

Life goes fast...my dear friend bravely fought her cancer for 5 short months. I would imagine those months didn't feel fast as they went to doctor's appointments and healed from surgery and watched the changes that cancer had made in their loved one. Now that she has passed away, I would bet that it feels like it went too fast.

Life goes fast...when our children are born it seems like eternity when you're sleep deprived and waking up for 3 am feedings, when you're potty training and when they hit those terrifying 3's and sassy teenage years. Then somehow they are old enough to have babies, get married, move away to college and you wonder how it all seemed to go so quickly.

Life goes fast...when my job ended at the CAC, it seemed to take forever to find another job. Then 6 months into my job with Nelnet, I was granted an interview with the YWCA. It almost seems like a lifetime ago because so much has happened but yesterday I celebrated my one year anniversary.

Life goes fast...so hold on tight to each of your blessings, love with all you have, forgive as we have been forgiven, don't let people live rent free in your soul for too long, speak kindness into the world, compliment often, speak love, and most of all remember that what seems to be taking too long or what seems to be a really long and hard struggle will be over and will only be a memory soon enough. Remember that each day we have on Earth is temporary and is only here to prepare us for what is next to come.

xxoo