With a little baby here at home it has been lots harder to update this blog. She is napping now and I am going to write...
Have you ever had an opportunity to tell someone how you feel but instead of taking advantage of that moment you watched as it passed you by? Yesterday on the news they shared a story of how a troop from Afghanistan made a youtube video asking a famous actress to be his date to the annual military ball in North Carolina. The video was shown to the actress and she was touched and much to the trooper's surprise she agreed to be his date. I guarantee that he has no regrets for making the video. Now if he had thought about making the video and then never actually done it he would probably be full of regret.
Over the fourth of July weekend we received news that Brian's grandad had taken a turn for the worse. The doctors were predicting he had 48 hours to live. Brian's parents were in Colorado when they got the news. Since they had their camper and truck they had no choice but to drive back to Tennessee. During the days that they traveled back Brian would go and visit his grandad in the ICU and tell him how far they were how much they loved him and then he would report back to his parents how his grandad was doing. On Friday night his grandad was doing pretty bad but he was still able to make eye contact, shake his head yes or no and he could squeeze your hand. Brian waited until everyone else had exited the room before he shared his heart with his grandad. He told his grandad how wonderful Meritt is and how sorry he was that his grandad wouldn't get the chance to meet her, he told his grandad how much his parents loved him and how much he loved him. He also told his grandad that whenever he was ready to go because when his eyes closed he would hear the words that we all long to hear when we die "Well Done My Good and Faithful Servant" he told his grandad that he had lived a good life and that he had served his family and God so well. He promised his grandad that his grandmother would be taken care of. During this talk Brian had tears rolling down his face and his grandad squeezed his hand and fixed his eyes on Brian. No Regrets.
Sometimes it is so difficult to dig deep and to share those raw thoughts. It is so hard because we might cry, the person might not like what we have to say but you have to ask yourself...will I regret never sharing how I feel. So many leave this earth suddenly and we don't have some time to prepare ourselves and to say the things that we are feeling. That is why we should share how we feel everyday.
May we all live lives purely and full of No Regrets.
P.S. Meritt is pretty great and I want to do a blog about her soon :)
