Live it Well

Life is short; I wanna live it well

One life, one story to tell

Life is short; I wanna live it well

And you're the one I'm living for

I wanna sing with all my heart a lifelong song

Even if some notes come out right and some come out wrong

'Cause I can't take none of that through the door

Yeah, I'm living for more than just a funeral

I wanna burn brighter than the dawn

The band Switchfoot sing about the idea of life being short in the song 'Live it Well' which I have reproduced in part up above.  It's a great song - I love the lyrics and the tune is really catchy. Have a listen to it if you haven't before.

Young people reading this - do you ever kind of laugh a little in your heart when old people tell you that life is short and that it goes by so quickly?  They say things like "I can't believe how fast my life has gone!  It seems like only yesterday I got married and had my children, and now they are giving me grandchildren!"

I always used to secretly think to myself, "nah! Life's not short! My eighteen years haven't really flown by so why should the rest of my life fly by?"

Friends, old people are wise.  Listen to what they say!

I have a little piece of advice.  Whether it feels to you like life is short or not, treat is as if it is.

This has kinda come home to me while working at a law office.  Two of the law staff I'm PA for work in the Wills and Estates section of law.  Which means I help draft Wills and do a bit of dabbling in the administration of Estates.  It's interesting work and I enjoy it, although it means I am closely involved in the subject of death (an Estate is what a person leaves behind when the die, and a Will is their instructions to the people left behind as to what they want done with it).

Working with Wills and Estates kinda makes you think, sometimes.

You don't know when you will leave this earth.  Switchfoot reckon life is short and they sing about wanting to live it well.  I think that's a brilliant idea.  Because you know what, whether life is short or not, it is unexpected.  Ecclesiastes talks about life being like a vapour.  People die unexpectedly.  Things like cancer and accidents happen to people when you least expect them to.  You can't predict your life.

So since you don't know how long you will be on this earth for, make it count!

Here's my favourite verse from Live it Well again.....

I wanna sing with all my heart a lifelong song

Even if some notes come out right and some come out wrong

'Cause I can't take none of that through the door

Yeah, I'm living for more than just a funeral

I wanna burn brighter than the dawn

What exactly are we living for?

What are you living for?

Does your life reflect your priorities?

Since we can't take anything with us when we pass on, what does that mean we're living for?  Well I think the answer is simple.  We're living for God since He is eternal.  We can't live for anything temporal since that doesn't last.  God does.  He is forever.

This theme of living it well is reflected in this beautiful song, In the Time that You Gave Me, sung by a lady named Joey Feek.  She has actually passed on now herself, having fought a long battle with cancer.  She sang this song sometime during her cancer battle and it really is so powerful.




I'm going to repeat the question I asked a little earlier.

What are you living for?


PS. I won't reply to any comments immediately because I'm going to be away for a week at kid's camp. <3