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MAKING THE MOST OF OUR HYPHEN
I remember someone encouraging me to enjoy the journey of leadership by saying, “may you live all the days of your life.” It took a while to register what they meant but looking back I see it was quite a powerful and challenging statement.
Jesus promised us life and more than that; ‘life to the full.’ I am sure in that promise Jesus was encouraging us to ‘LIVE all the days of our lives’ and I mean ALL the days.
I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend and he referred to the two dates that were on her tombstone, the year of her birth and the year of her death. However, what he was wanting to emphasise was that what mattered most was the hyphen in between those two dates which represented all the years she had lived. Probably only those who really knew and loved her would know what those years represented.
For each one of us the length of time that hyphen represents will vary and none of us know how much of our hyphen is left, but whatever it is, lets give those remaining years our best shot and live every day of them well.
Someone once said that ‘the tragedy with life is not that it ends so soon but that we can wait so long for it to begin.’ It’s probably true that some people are alive but not living and that some people are dead while still waiting to die. Can I encourage us all to live all the days that our own personal hyphen will one day represent.
Ian Watson
National Leadership Team
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