My Challenge

My great aunt Betty passed away this morning. I was not close to her but really wish that I had been. My dad has been telling me stories about her and she seems like a really cool person. She did not have children of her own and was a widow for 28 years now. She was too young to pass on but it was Gods time for her to come home. We all knew now for a while that she would not make it much longer. She was told she only had about a month or less. They were right, it was just about a month.

I have been thinking about what I would do if I were told that I only had a month to live? I was not sure at first. I kept thinking I knew what I would do...I would travel and see as much as I could. I would do things I might not ever do, like a hot airballon ride, or sky dive. I would eat food I never tried before just to say I did it. Then I got to thinking more about it. Why would I do all of that. I am not a travler, I would rather be at home with my family. I am afraid of heights so I would never get in a hot air ballon let alone sky dive. I am kind of a picky eater so I will stick with what I like.

So I started really thinking about what was most important to me and in no order I came up with this: my family, Nathan, my two kids and their future, God and my relationship with him, my job, friends, myself, and a few other things. So why would I waste time on things that don't matter to me as much as those things do? So the real question was this: If I had one month to live, what would I spend more time on? Or less for that matter? Would I change my perspective on life? This is going to be my focus for the next month. From now (October 3rd until November 2nd) I will try to be living my life so I have no regrets. I personally want to focus on what is truly important to me, make each of my moments count and look at my life a whole new way. I want to spend more time making my moments count instead of wasting them on the less important things in life. What am I doing to make a difference in my life, and the life of my kids for that matter? I challenge you to do the same. What would you do in your last 30 days?

I am going to be blogging about my journey and hope that maybe you will be challenged by this as well. What would you do if you only had one month to live? I will also be reading the book titled One Month to Live by Kerry and Chris Shook and look forward to seeing the results of my new outlook on life.