To Save a Life

Now is the Winter of our Discontent...

So why not trade in your life?  

 

  The crocus is the symbol of new life that breaks through 

and blossoms after the worst of winters. 

I have always hesitated to write what I think.  As long as my thoughts stir your thoughts, and mine are never meant to be the last word--okay then, here goes.  What if those who had given up on their life and wanted to end it could trade in their life years?  Then others who were "dying to live" could withdraw some years for themselves?  (I deliberately did not share these thoughts with my Mindy McCready post because I never make light of any life.)  I know so many folks who would "die" for a few more years while others seem in such pain that they do not wish to live another day.  Why not trade them in?   The meaning of life is found not in throwing away our years—but in giving them away to others.  We can add to the years and blessings of others!  

Our lives makes the one we have of infinite value--whether you believe in God or not.  Take the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life."  Clarence the angel is speaking to George Bailey, Jimmy Stewart....

Clarence: Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

George learns that if he never existed then his brother Harry would have died when he broke through the ice.  Each person cannot trade in a life.  But they can add years and a blessing to others.  

Clarence: You see George, you've really had a wonderful life. Don't you see what a mistake it would be to just throw it away?