This past week, we kicked off our 30 Days To Live teaching series at Oasis. In fact,I mentioned my day of dying would be on a Monday in November in 2069. You can find your day at deathclock.com! Kinda sobering, reality check, right?

We were talking about 30 days at our last staff meeting and Guy asked us what we would do if we were given the diagnosis of only a few days left…most all of our answers went back to spend time with family and friends.

Ranelle (our office manager) said that she would write letters to her grandkids and loved ones.

Joel, Ben, and I said that we would take the video camera and talk to our kids and teach them about life and use that to tell them we love them.

I shared how I would drink some really good wine (gotta get ready for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb!) and eat some really good food with Jeanine and really enjoy life and be grateful for each moment that I had remaining with them. I talked about watching a lot less tv if I knew the time remaining was short.

Kevin talked about buying 30 t-shirts and have a countdown shirt for each day left…day 29, day 28…that was funny!

But, seriously, that was hard to think about…but I think important and the question we will keep going back to throughout this series is, why wait? Why wait to live like that…and why not live for the really important things now?