There is a difference between living and living life. Living means I go through life, day by day, merely trying to survive, merely trying to satisfy my basic desires.
Living life means that I reach down into the depths of who I am and realize that there is more to life than getting up in the morning, going to work, coming home at night, watching some T.V. and going to bed.
Sometimes, it takes a difficult season in our lives to help us break out of our doldrums.
Tony Snow, the former spokesperson for President Bush, died of cancer this month after a three-year battle with cancer.
He wrote before he died:
"The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well. Some cancer patients recover; some don't. But the ordeal of facing your mortality and feeling your frailty sharpens your perspective about life. You appreciate little things more ferociously. You grasp the mystical power of love. You feel the gravitational pull of faith. And you realize you have received a unique gift—a field of vision others don't have about the power of hope and the limits of fear; a firm set of convictions about what really matters and what does not. You also feel obliged to share these insights—the most important of which is this: There are things far worse than illness—for instance, soullessness."
May God keep us from superficiality.
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