Life

I was sitting here this morning thinking about how precious life is! I know everyday we should be thankful, every breath is a gift, bla bla bla! We know these things and yet we still take life for granted. Through the window in my office I can see the sun shining through barren trees as the leaves have fallen and yet last spring I remember looking at those leaves as they were budding and thinking I want to enjoy them this year. Now they are gone and I never did enjoy them at all. Life is about relationships and in the end the question will be as simple as Jesus put it when He said "Love God and love your neighbor"! But how do we love a God who we haven't seen and a neighbor that's a pain in the you know what! Jesus said that we love God with all our heart, all our mind, all our soul, and all our strength. He said that we loved as we love ourself. How much would churches, families, freindships, and the rest of the world change if we lived by these commandments today! A qoute I once heard and I thought was very powerful said "if everyone in the world was like me what kind of world would this be"?