And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln

There is a Garth Brooks song called “Pushing Up Daisies” that has stuck with me ever since I heard it years ago.  An excerpt:

There’s two dates in time
That they’ll carve on your stone
And everyone knows what they mean
What’s more important
Is the time that is known
In that little dash there in between
That little dash there in between

Are you living in the dash? 

My church is starting a series of services centered around the idea of living as you only had one month to live. Would you change how you lived your life for the next month if you knew it would be your last one? 

They call it a challenge. 

What would you do differently if you only had thirty days??  Go ahead, think about it for a minute.  (I’ll wait here)

It’s hard to say isn’t it?   It was a lot easier for me to say what I would not do than how I would do something different. I know I would spend as much time as I could with my family. 

The point of the “challenge” isn’t to plan out how you would spend the last thirty days of your life – as if you would even know when that was.  The point is to get you to start thinking about living your life differently now not waiting until you know you have a short time left to do the things you always wanted to do.  

The “challenge” I am struggling with is not what I would do – its how to go about doing it and not get sucked back in to the daily grind we have become accustomed to. 

I want to travel the US in an RV – see places and experience different people and take lots of photos.  I was to live life, travel, love and be loved, and ultimately be happy.  If in the process, I could make a difference in someone else’s life – that’s a bonus.

Do you know how I could start living my dreams now?  That will be my journey…I just don’t want to spend my life trying to figure it out. 

I leave you with a quote from www.onemonthtolive.com :

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful to live your life so that if you discovered you only had a month to live, you wouldn’t have to change a thing?”

Leave your dreams in the comments below.