Anna Nicole Smith's passing has shocked many people, especially because she was only 39 years old.
The reaction of feeling a person was 'Too young to die' is all too common when someone dies at an early age. To hear of someone dying young, especially if they were well known, or personally known to us is a shock. It brings us up short with the fact of our own mortality.
No one knows how long they have to live on this earth. How many years, months, days, hours and minutes of our life is known only to God.
We cannot change the past; we do not have control the future. We only have power over the present moment and how we live that.
What we think, what we speak, and how we act in the present is so important, as it can influence and change our life in the future, and touch and impact the lives of others.
Yet how often to we become so busy, so distracted, that we don't live fully in the present moment of time. We don't take advantage of the moment and live life to the full.
How can we make the most of living in the present? How can we make a difference with the life we have been given, for however long we have to live it?
I believe the key is to discover the purpose for your life. In that way we can be aware of life's ultimate purpose as we live moment by moment, and determine in that moment to move towards that purpose. Living life without a sense of purpose is like sitting in a row boat drifting on the ocean moving wherever the wind and waves take it. However knowing that the boat's final destination is the shore, gives direction and reason to row the boat. By using each moment to row the boat towards the shore, causes the boat to move move slowly, but surely in the direction of the shore with each oar stroke. Each stroke of the oar in itself may seem small and insignificant, but the accumulated effect of each movement brings the boat closer to the shore.
Your life has purpose and meaning.
Life is a gift, let's fully live it in the present.
