Words for Life...Mine at Least

Since surgery, words, quotes and symbols have become very important to me.  Like the horse necklace as a realization of another goal (tho my mother has decided I am going through my second childhood because I want to learn to ride.  Yeah, only children ride horses...whatever).

For my birthday, Robyn got me a lovely wooden cross that has an awesome quote by Erma Bombeck on it.  It says:

"when I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would hae not a single bit of talent left and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'"

Isn't that awesome?  I love that and I want it to be what I do say when I arrive at Heaven's door.  I want to live my life to the fullest now.  I want to realize every single dream.

With birthday money today, I bought a necklace I have had my eye on for a couple of months now.  "Embrace the Moment".  Aren't those great words?  Aren't they words we should all live by?  Embrace the moment, no matter what the moment is, whether it be happy or sad, embrace it and own it and learn from it; experience it, even if it is painful (such as my most recent events...sure did learn from that!).  I just love that. 

I love words that are reminders.  Words that remind me of what I am doing here.  Words that remind me that we only get one shot down here, so we need to make the most of every single minute of every single day.  Reminds me of the lyrics of the new 33 Miles song (brand spanking new...can't even download it yet!).

"You only get one time around,
You only get one shot at this.
One chance to find out,
the one thing that you don't want to miss.
One day when it's all said and done,
I hope you see that it was enough
 this one ride, one try, one life to love."

Try it all, bloggy friends.  Don't wait for tomorrow because it may not ever arrive.  No one at the end of their life down here will ever say "I wish I had spent more time at work" or "I wish I had spent more time worrying about tomorrow."  What we do down here is up to us, though we need to use our lives to glorify Him. 

I want to glorify Him by using every talent He gave me.