Inspired Writing
Sunday, November 30, 2025
If not now, then when? What is so important in this world that you must ignore your own needs, your own growth and do everything for others. When do you have time for you and what does that look like for you? Does it mean your feet up on the sofa as you read a good book, or a long walk on the beach? Perhaps this is all you feel you need to replenish. But what about the growth? The growth you need to carry on into the hereafter with no sense of regret or wonder. Why is it so easy to ignore this? To think that there will always be another day. We as a human cannot seem to grasp the one single truth of this existence, and that is nothing is forever. Nothing lasts and everything changes. When you put off what is so important to you, no matter how small the amount of joy may seem, how much time has to pass before you see that time really does one day run out. We all played games as a child with a sand timer and furiously worked to finish a task before the timer run out of sand. But now, what do we do? We think tomorrow will always come. We will see another sunrise, sunset or just live another day. We forget how fleeting time is and that one day we will be no more. Our lives will change, and our lives will end. We think that one day we will travel, one day will retire and one day we will relax. We take on more and more until we cannot take no more. We work to ease the burdens of others to avoid conflict or struggle. But why? With all we have for knowledge, with all that are friends in spirit tell us, we ignore the inevitable and place ourselves dead last. We are here to learn and grow. Our friends in spirit relish in watching us change and learn. Can you imagine what they feel when they watch us languish? Nourishing everyone and everything around us but ignoring who should come first – our spirit. So as you leave here today, your friends in spirit ask you to consider these words carefully. Make sure your soul is nourished, you are continuing to learn and of course that you are enjoying this time that you have here. Because we all hear of and know of people who are no longer able fill these chairs and we must remember, one day we will join them.