How Do You Live Your Dash? I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on her tombstone from the beginning, to the end. He noted that first came the date of her birth and spoke the following date with tears but he said that what mattered most of all was the "dash" between those years (1947 - 2000).

For that dash represents all the time that she spent alive on earth and now only those who love her know what that little line is worth. For it matters not, how much we own the cars, the house, the cash. What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash. So think about this long and hard, are there things you'd like to change? For you never know how much time is left that can still be re-arranged. If we could just slow down to consider what's true and real and always try to understand the way other people feel. If we could be less quick to anger and show appreciation more and love the people in our lives like we've never loved before. If we treat each other with respect and more often wear a smile, remembering that this special dash might only last a while.

So, when your eulogy's being read with your life's actions to rehash, would you be proud of the things they say about how you spent your dash? We shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that we can do, or any kindness that we can show any human being, let us do it now. Let us not defer or neglect it, for we shall not pass this way again.....

January 29	Thoughts