Facing Death

I was reading the Sunday Times yesterday and read about the stories of Joan Chan (21 years old http://onlyskindeep.blogspot.com/) who is suffering from tongue cancer, another (27 years old) suffering from breast cancer and the last about the late CEO and Chairman of KPMG who died last year at the age of 53 from brain cancer.

I think those who read the Sunday Times would have all been drawn towards these very personal stories. Death has a morbid appeal to everyone because it is an unescapable fact of life and we wonder how we would respond when it comes.

The late CEO of KPMG did something quite remarkable when he was told he had advanced brain cancer and not many months to live. He jolted down all his friends which amounted to more than a thousand and emailed them or phoned them and used it to capture or recall that "Special Moment" and used it as a closure. These were his outer circle.

He found that those in the inner circle, he often neglected and lamented that he did not spend more time with his wife and was absent from his daughter's important functions.

Which set me thinking. If death is a fact of life, and we all will have to face it one day, while not neglecting what is necessary for daily life, what are the things that are really important that I should do while there is still time?

While we all have different priorities and circles to draw, let me lovingly encourage everyone to draw an innermost circle and put the word GOD there. If you do not know who He is, make effort to find Him. If you know who He is, spend your life to have more "Special Moments" with the God who loves you and gave His life for you :-)