Just another day!!!

Yes, it is just another day in my life of days. But, considering the options, this is great. I am so thankful I am here now able to even type a blog. I am also thankful that my wife and I are able to live in our house together. There was a time when all this was in doubt, but with much prayer from many people, many we don't even know, we both pulled through a very tough 2007. So when I say just another day it is with great appreciation of having just another day.

I have a very close friend, Dave, who is very close to going to be with the Lord. He has lived a very good and full life, he is 88 I think, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't live to 100. He has already lived way past when the doctors thought he would, so just another day means a lot more to him than me. I guess we don't realise how important that one more day can be.

I can remember in my fathers last days, he wanted just one more day and one more chance. He had had many heart attacks in the last year of his life and had chosen to not do what the doctors told him that he needed to do to live longer. That was another wish on his death bed, that if he could just have one more chance he would do what he was told. He told my mother on that last week of his life that he did not want to die alone. So, we all sat with him around the clock for several days. On the last day of his life he told mother he had seen Jesus and was ready to go home. It was my sitting time from about 10 PM to 8 AM. My sister and aunt came up to relieve me and I went out of the room for only seconds to let them know there was no change. When we walked back into the room he was gone. I really believe he waited until no one was there to die.

There is another strange story about his death, as my sister and children and I were on the way to the grave site, my sister and I were talking about how daddy had gone to a better place we were sure. My daughter who was only 5 at the time spoke up and said she knew grandpa went to heaven. Why, we ask her was she so sure? She said, "because I saw him going up". Wow, out of the mouths of babes!!!

So, my reason for writing this is to remember that just is another day is a precious gift from God and we should never forget this wonderful gift. So, if you are bored with it being just another day, stop and reflect on the wonder of it all and be thankful you have just another day.