March 25, 2015, TGIW: Unhumping Hump Day…it’s Urgent!

“I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don’t live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.” –Criss Angel

What if there is safe, and there is playing, but there is no playing safe?

If you choose playing vs. safe, what dream, initiative or someday-I’m-gonna action would you take today? But really!! In the next hour, what would you do differently?

Unshaken-up life can seduce us into believing that there will be time for this or that down the road, or that we just can’t fit it in right now, or that we ought to plan it more or better to “guarantee” success.

Yet, haven’t we all noticed that large or small “emergencies” make time for themselves anyway, and that the longer we wait to take action on this or that the more it simply never happens?

A friend recently made an emergency visit back to her hometown for her grandmother’s unexpected funeral. This also happened to me a couple years ago for a cousin’s surprise passing.

At these events — that we somehow made the time to include in our busy lives — the conversation always turns to how good it is to see everyone yet “wouldn’t it be better if it wasn’t under these conditions?”

There’s such a thing as invented vs. justifiable urgency, and we all have this inventive power. Are we using it?

God knows, we all have so much cooking…and yet, are we moving to the front burner what REALLY matters most if we were to be out of here tomorrow?

Got urgency?

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.” –Pope Paul VI