Don’t Wait To Say You Love Someone!

                This had not been an easy month.  Seeing my seventy-four year old mother face major surgery, for the first time in her life, I quietly sobbed as I praised God for her wonderful health and her successful healing at this time.  Looking at her, lying feebly in that hospital bed, her horizontal outline reminded me of my beautiful Christian grandmother who had been called home to be with the Lord many years ago.  Inwardly I cried selfishly to myself, “I am not ready for you to take her Lord! I am not ready!”  Yet, I knew that should my Jesus choose to call her home I would release her instantly.

                My step-father had played host to my husband and myself this weekend, despite the fact that the week earlier he had been told that he had cancer, in the bowel, and that it had turned terminal.  Talking to him on the telephone, his voice quivered, and I could hear him cry as he spoke the reality that their time was very limited, as that they both they were getting on in their years.  Content and happy with God and his life, it was a wonderful thing to see.  Precious and so few were his words and now after thirty years of marriage to my mother, in this crisis, he told me that he loved me.

How dear this was to me.  As I type this I still weep, as too many people do not realize how important it is too say those special words…”I love you.”

He had given me hugs before but he had never told me that he loved me.  My sister had told me that he loved me and I remember thinking, “Well, if he loves me why doesn’t he tell me?”

“Why do people have to wait until they are in a crisis until they share their emotions or their love?  Why can’t they just make it a habit of telling someone that they love them?  Wouldn’t that make their lives much simpler?”

                I do realize that my life is a gift from God and that every moment that I breathe is a present.  Everything that I have is from Him and He may call me at any moment.  My life is to be lived to the best for Him, as an example to others and that I must try my best at every moment.  Perfection will never become me without Christ Jesus my Lord, so I must call on Him and ask Him daily to be my Lord, my King and my Saviour for without Jesus, I am nothing and with Him, I am a King’s Kid, a Child of Paradise.  A child with everything to look forward to and I look forward to the days ahead and all of the promises that my Lord, my God promises in my treasured book, the Bible.