Living Versus Dying

Life versus death. I recently came across a video that gave me goosebumps watching it. In it the man talked about how a study was done with 100 people on their death-bed and how one of the most common regrets wasn’t the things they did, but the things they didn’t do. The paths they didn’t take, the dreams they didn’t pursue, or the lives they didn’t live.

I was struck. HARD. Maybe it’s because I’ve had two loved ones pass in the last 6 months. Maybe it’s because I felt the words pierce my soul. Maybe it’s because what he talked about screamed back at me. You see, he talked about how doubt…doubt can kill any dream God has placed on us. It’s not our talent or our opportunities. No, it’s the words we speak to ourself that will take our vision for our life and bring it back to “realistic” views.

Ha! Realistic. How I HATE that word. What does it even mean? In whose terms did we define realistic? Because if we defined them in God’s terms I feel like anything is realistic. Sometimes I’ll hear people talk about “Oh, I prayed about it and God doesn’t want that for me.” Whoa. Wait. What? Personally, unless that item you’re talking about will hinder your physical, mental or emotional stability why wouldn’t God want that for you? Why wouldn’t He want you to spend more time with family? Why wouldn’t He want you happier? No, what really happened is you went home prayed about it, God reminded you He can bless absolutely anything and then the devil swept in and brought along that doubt guy and reminded you to just stay inside and not step out.

How do I know this happened? Because it’s happened to me countless of times. I’ve sat there multiple times talking to Preston about writing a blog, him reminding me God’s gonna bless it, and me replying with “I’ll wait, because it’s more comfortable to wait than to step out.”

Not anymore.

Mel Robbins wrote a book called  5 Second Rule ” If you haven’t read it, go read it. In the book, she talked about doing a countdown. Anytime she needed to move past the resistance and the doubt she’d countdown, like a rocket ship getting ready for take off. My challenge to you, and to myself, is that from now on. Anytime we want to do something, but we have that doubt friend in the back of our mind, we take from Mel and count down. 5..4..3..2..1. Then proceed to say “yes” and go live.

Friends invite you out for a game night, yes. Skydiving, yes. Road trip, yes. Vacation, Heck yes! New job offer, yes. You get my point by now I hope. Now, let’s go live and when we are all on our death-bed we can FaceTime and chat about all the wild fun adventures we went on, instead of talking about the things we didn’t do like the 100 people in that study.

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