Changes and Chances

It dawned on me that I have been retired one year this past week. We are coming quickly to the time last year that Marsha and I put ourselves in two vehicles and headed south to our retirement home. Boy have things changed in a year. Who would have believed that I would be heading back this year to my home in Myrtle Beach without Marsha. It makes you keenly aware of the changes and chances of life. God has been with us this year in so many very important ways, and yet life moved on with unexpected and difficult changes. Change is one of the inevitable realities of life. Often we can't even for see the circumstances that can lead to large and significant changes. I say this not to bemoan what has happened but to highlight the reality that we have chances to say what we need to say, and we have chances to do what we need to do, and we have chances to be what we need to be, but they don't last forever in this world. As much as I think we lived a full and wonderful life together, we perhaps had a little too much tomorrow and not quite enough today. We had the chance to use today, but we put off some things until a tomorrow that will never come. God has used our lives and I have no regrets for the things we have done, I do regret a few things we left undone. So I still have chances and I still will face changes and perhaps if I'm not too much of a slow learner I will use my chances wisely.