{"id":10618,"date":"2019-07-23T05:39:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=10618"},"modified":"2019-07-23T05:39:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T10:39:14","slug":"living-like-theres-no-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=10618","title":{"rendered":"Living Like There’s No Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I know that\u2019s easy for me to say. I\u2019ve long passed raising a family, working a full-time job and lots of other responsibilities. But having the grands with me has sure reminded me of what it takes to feed, nurture, wash their clothes, plan their days and activities, and keep them busy enough to not be glued to their phones social media and gaming. It\u2019s a work-out and I feel you, moms and dads. I once was there right with you. Well, maybe not with the cell phone activities, but I did know it was a work out to keep them entertained. I don\u2019t ever hear: \u201cI\u2019m so bored\u201d these days, like I heard when raising my children. There are so many options when traveling or just waiting for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, as long as I have these grandchildren with me, I\u2019m \u201cliving like there\u2019s no tomorrow\u201d! Making memories, being silly, playing games, eating at their favorite restaurants, cooking their favorite meals, etc. I\u2019ll admit I\u2019m running out of options so those phones come in handy when I\u2019m writing my next day\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The boys wanted me to see the new Spiderman and so we went on Saturday. Confession: I\u2019m a Spiderman fan. I like his youth and innocence, his courage and the fact that a youth is the superhero. Spoiler Alert \u2013 if you haven\u2019t seen it yet (and, believe me, it\u2019s worth seeing)! Spider Man and his high school buddies do some major globe-hopping. They make it to Venice and I recall the precious memory of my husband and I celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary there. Riding in a gondola (like Spiderman and his buddies), we called home to our children. Another scene was in Berlin and a flashback came of us with our backpacks traveling via ferry, taxi on the autobahn, and the train and into Berlin (one of our rare \u201cflying by the seat of our pants\u201d adventure). Another scene was in Holland and I recalled to the boys that I was there with my friends at the Tulip Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I titled this blog \u201cLiving Like There is No Tomorrow\u201d and I realize that I\/we have done that \u2013 in the meager times when we\u2019d go camping in tents, roasting marshmallows and fishing with our young children to make memories and moments count. The trip to Sweden, Denmark and Germany came as a result of my husband winning an 8-day all-expense-paid trip \u2013 a true blessing from God and my husband\u2019s winning putt at an LPGA tournament contest. We lived like there was no tomorrow by being willing to back-pack to places we had never been before and my trip to Holland was an adventure with friends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Having this precious time with my grandchildren is a change from my normal and comfortable routine, but living like there is no tomorrow means making every minute count in this day. I\u2019m doing that today. We are heading back to Austin to spend several days celebrating my son\u2019s birthday. We will laugh, eat, reminisce and celebrate his life. We\u2019ll live and celebrate like there is no tomorrow. That’s just the way our family rolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My encouragement to you is to join me in living like there is no tomorrow. Maybe, not so much with the need to travel to distant locations, but to live with no regrets. Live now like there is no tomorrow. Rick Warren\u2019s book \u201cThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?\u201d explains that we have no guarantee of tomorrow because we don’t know when it\u2019s time for us to leave earth. We are famous for postponing things where we shouldn’t. Our schedules may be busy, but making time for things and people that matter \u2013 in the light of eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s blog motive is an encouragement to us to live everyday like there’s no tomorrow. Tomorrow just may not come \u2013 it didn\u2019t for my sweet grandfather who went to bed beside his beloved wife and never woke up. It didn\u2019t for those in the Twin Towers on 9\/11 who went to their routine job and never saw another day. Don\u2019t postpone anything, do it now. Don\u2019t stress over little or big things \u2013 like my guest bathroom toilet overflowing yesterday. Breathe, get the plunger, clean up the mess\u2026 and let it go. Choose love over anger and hate. Spend time with God \u2013 getting right with Him \u2013 settling once and for all \u201cAs for me and my house, we will serve the Lord\u201d (Joshua 24:15). Since God is in control, and we\u2019re not \u2013 we can make choices to be happy, to smile, laugh, use wisdom when we speak, and answer with love. Living this day and every day like there is no tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know that\u2019s easy for me to say. I\u2019ve long passed raising a family, working a full-time job and lots of other responsibilities. But having the grands with me has sure reminded me of what it takes to feed, nurture, wash their clothes, plan their days and activities, and keep them busy enough to not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10625,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618\/revisions\/10625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}