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A good friend of mine always tell the story, of a story line in one of the Maternity Wards he visited: The first 30 sixty seconds of life is pretty dangerous, and then somebody added, the last thirty is also pretty dangerous.

The following quote by Allan Sacs; “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives,” leads to the following question how do we life these moments between birth and death?

• Do we life our passion?
• Do we love unconditionally?
• Do we care?
• Are we creating a legacy?
• Are we brand ambassadors for Christ?
• Are we living our dreams, or other’s dreams?

Steve Job’s  share a few thoughts on: How to live before you die. He share some of his own life experience.

“You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.” Harry Firestone

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

Kahlil Gibran

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eric Liddell, Olympic athlete, better known for the story in Chariots of fire said the following words:

I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.

I was pondering on these words and the following thoughts came to mind:
To be able to live life with passion I must be living life to the fullest. To be able to do that I must be contributing to the world by sharing my gifts.
However I must trust God and not myself to be able to this.
I must be grateful, also for the so called small things. As that will create mindfulness and gratitude.
It will also create more energy as I will then be living integrated and I will be in a performance zone to perform and share.

May you have a wonderful week and perform in the zone to the benefit of God. The wonder is then we will also reap the harvest.

The following words are from the song of U2, one:
ONE
(U2 & Mary J Blight)
Is it getting better?
Or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now?
You got someone to blame
You say: one love, one life
When it’s one need in the night
One Love, we get to share it
Leaves you baby if you don’t care for it

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without

Well it’s too late, tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We’re one, but we’re not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other

Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much – more than a lot
You gave me nothing – now it’s all I got

We’re one, but we’re not the same
Well we hurt each other, then we do it again

You say: love is a temple – Love a higher law
Love is a temple – love the higher law
You ask me to enter – then you make me crawl
And I can’t be holding on to what you got
When all you got is hurt

One love, one blood
One life- you got to do what you should
One life with each other
Sisters, brothers

One life, but we’re not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other
One – one

It always leave me with the questions in my own life:
How integrated and balanced are my life, do I life a life of one, or perhaps if fragmented what must be corrected?
Am I part of the universe and do I really have compation with other?

Enjoy your day.

Language is actually profound, the words desire and need at first site had more or less the same context for me at first glance. However with some reflection I now see them quite differently and it will also make some decision much easier, in future.

You see the question I will ask myself in future is the following: Do I need something or do I have a desire to have it?

Desire then ego centric; I want vs. a specific need….