If not now, then when?

IF NOT NOW, THEN WHEN?

People don’t enjoy funerals because; funerals remind us that we only have today, right now, this hour. We only have one chance in each encounter with every "other" to see them as reflections.  Instead of the rude who cut in front of us on the road, or the person who dominate in conversation. We can only form the habit of goodness, kindness, generosity, one good act, one kind moment and one generous outpouring at a time. We can only change one tiny momentary part of ourselves, that single part that exists in the fleeting "now" of our lives.

C.S. Lewis put it this way: "I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow-creatures, and with itself. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other."

The person who left this earth is gone now. So many excuses, but let’s do what is important in life today. Start telling those around us what they mean to each other, forgive and love.