Take Time.....

I read a poem the other day which was sent to me by a friend and the essence of this poem was having or not having regrets.
 
The rather long poem had some lines that didn’t quite fit or certainly didn’t have a poetic rhythm, but it was the last verse that really spoke to me on different levels. I don’t know who the writer of the poem was or what led them to write it, but this is the last verse:
 
“Take time to say. ‘I’m sorry’, ‘Please forgive me’, ‘Thank you’, or ‘It’s okay’.
And if tomorrow never comes
you’ll have no regrets about today”.
 
Maybe the writer had lost someone close or lost contact with someone and had regrets about the way they had behaved or some things they may have said. Whatever the reason, it had caused them to put pen to paper. (A quaint expression!)
 
But I wondered about us all, are we big enough to take time to say, “I’m sorry” or “Forgive me if I have upset you”. After all, I think it is the bigger person to say these things and maybe even feel a little vulnerable in expressing those words.
 
The next part of the verse, the last sentence, must resound with us all. Not one of us knows what is around the corner or even if we have a tomorrow. Yes, that does sound scary and I am talking to myself as well, are there things you have left undone, some hurt that you have left to fester, something nice you meant to say to someone, but you haven’t got round to it.
 
Hopefully you will open your eyes tomorrow to the gift of a new day, a day to fulfil those things you need to say and do.
 
So go out as believers in Christ Jesus and share His love and yes, bless God in your living. Think about this, God doesn’t have any regrets about creating you!