If you don’t know it yet I love good quotes. They can start some my best thoughts. So here is one of my favorites.
It comes from the movie Open Range. Charlie (Kevin Costner) is talking to a man who is afraid to let his sons stand up for the town against a ruthless land owner because he is afraid they would get killed. Charlie says “you may not know this but there are things that gnaw at a man worse than dying“
What a great message. In studies done with elderly patients they ( yes the infamous and anonymous they) found that none of those when asked about their regrets ever said they wished they had spent more time at work, or made more money. They said they wished they spent more time with friends and family, that they had made difference, that they had done something of significance. And some even gave their lives to Christ before they died. What if they had done that years before they died? What could Christ do with a surrendered heart?
So what will gnaw at you? What regrets will you have? Do you have? What is left undone for you to do? Your deathbed is not the place to decide you should have, could have. It’s now!
There are things that gnaw at a man and at a woman that is worse that dying. Aren’t there.
