What If

Rita's passing has shaken our work place. Everyone is banding together to fill in the gaps. Rita did a lot! We were informed that the autopsy showed Rita suffered a "massive heart attack". Her father had died at a young age of the same. She had been to the doctor a couple weeks before she died - she wasn't feeling right. Rita smoked and was getting ready to quit. What if she were at work when the event occurred? We would have jumped into action, we all know what to do in such circumstances. What if the weather were better and she had come to work. What if the doctor had done more tests, different tests. One of the doctors we work with had emergency cardiac bypass surgery over the weekend...it saved his life. What if Rita had that opportunity.

We stood looking at one another - so many what ifs. But they don't count and what ifs don't help, don't ease the loss, don't ease our missing Rita - as a wonderful person, as a co worker. What IF. After is not the time to look at what should and could and would. Now is the time. Now is the time to DO. Do what you know to do is right. Do what you know to do is good. Do the difficult but necessary. Do what is embarrassing, humbling, awkward, new, never done before, not worked before...if it is right and good, and will benefit another, even if your own benefit is minimal at the time. DO IT. God has given us this wonderful life to share, to fill with joy and peace and love. Share the gifts you have been blessed with and talented with. DO THEM and bless others. Let people know about Jesus Christ and His work at Calvary for us! For me. He stepped into my place of judgement, my place of death, and bore all my sins, every single one of them, and died for me...and You. He died and defeated death through the resurrection. He gives us the opportunity to join Him in heaven...and he did it gladly because Jesus Christ is crazy in love with you.
We are in the Easter season. Resurrection, New Birth, New Hope and no one should ever miss the opportunity to meet Jesus Christ face to face, be fully embraced and filled with His love, as one is gloriously Baptised in His Spirit.
What Ifs don't count for anything. Calvin Coolidge is credited with saying - "no one ever got an award for getting something, rather they received the reward for giving something." Give wholly and completely yourself to Jesus Christ. Give Him your best, your all, your everything. The blessing that will follow will be immeasurable.