How short life is sometimes

It’s crazy how life is cut short these days.  It seems like every six months I know someone that has died at a young age.  It makes me scared that life can be taken away at a moment notice.  This weekend my brother’s friend has a seizer and died from blood clouts and complications of the seizer while playing basketball with some friends.  I’ve been thinking more about life and death and whether I am ready for it?  I’ve even gone as far as applying for life insurance so that my family won’t have to worry about anything if it is my time but the more I look at my life, I realize that I need to start purging away my stuff to the minimal for people to deal with.  As I sit in church one song had really hit home about how short our lives ultimately are.  We are no different from anything that has life.  We live, we grow, we multiply and then we died.  No one is immune to sadness or illness or hurt and we have to realize what are our priorities in life are and do you believe in God?   Casting Crowns – Who Am I LyricsWho am I?That the Lord of all the earth,Would care to know my name,Would care to feel my hurt.Who am I?That the bright and morning star,Would choose to light the way,For my ever wondering heart.Not because of who I am.But because of what you’ve done.Not because of what I’ve done.But because of who you are.Chorus:I am a flower quickly fading,Here today and gone tomorrow.A wave tossed in the ocean,A vapor in the wind.Still you hear me when I’m calling,Lord you catch me when I’m falling,And you told me who I am.I am yours.I am yours.Who am I?That the eyes that see my sinWould look on me with loveAnd watch me rise againWho am I?That the voice that calm the sea,Would call out through the rain,And calm the storm in me. Not because of who I am.But because what of youve done.Not because of what I’ve done.But because of who you are.Chorus:I am a flower quickly fading,Here today and gone tomorrow.A wave tossed in the ocean,A vapor in the wind.Still you hear me when I’m calling,Lord you catch me when I’m falling,And you told me who I am.I am yours.Not because of who I am.But because of what you’ve done.Not because of what I’ve done.But because of who you are.Chorus:I am a flower quickly fading,Here today and gone tomorrow.A wave tossed in the ocean,A vapor in the wind.Still you hear me when I’m calling,Lord you catch me when I’m falling,You told me who I am.I am yours.I am yours.Whom shall I fear?Whom shall I fear?‘Cuz I am yours.I am yours.

~ by mymessydrawer on March 9, 2008.