Just in Case this is my last day, this is my phone call!

[Judy Harder]

     (just incase, God calls me today, I am adding this post to the coffee shop...so all my friends can/will read it.)    
   
  READ  THIS VERY SLOWLY... IT'S  ENLIGHTENING!

Too  many people put off something that brings them joy just because  they haven't

thought about it, don't have it on their schedule,  didn't know it was coming or are too

rigid to depart from their  routine.

I got to thinking one day about all those women  on the Titanic who passed up dessert

at dinner that fateful  night in an effort to cut back.  From then on, I've tried  to be a little more flexible.

How many women out there  will eat at home because their husband didn't suggest

going out  to dinner until after something had been thawed? Does the word  'refrigeration' mean nothing to you?

How often have your  kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched  'Jeopardy' on television?

I cannot count the times I  called my sister and said, 'How about going to lunch in a half  hour?

She would gasp and stammer, 'I can't. I have clothes on  the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had

known yesterday, I had  a late breakfast, It looks like rain.' And my personal favorite:  'It's Monday.'

She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch  together.

Because Americans cram so much into their  lives, we tend to schedule our headaches. We live

on a sparse  diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions  are perfect!

We'll go back and visit the grandparents  when we get Jimmy toilet-trained. We'll entertain

when we  replace the living-room carpet. We'll go on a second honeymoon  when we get two

more kids out of college.

Life has a way  of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the  list of promises

to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we  awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a

litany of  'I'm going to,' 'I plan on,' and 'Someday, when things are  settled down a bit.'

When anyone calls my 'seize the  moment' friend, she is open to adventure and available for  

trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for  life is contagious..

You talk with her for five minutes, and  you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of roller

blades  and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.

My lips have not  touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It's just that  I might as

well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula  and eliminate the digestive process..

The other day, I stopped  th car and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an iceberg  

on the way home, I would have died happy..

Now.. go on  and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to... not something  on your

SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon and had  only one phone call you could make,

who would you call and what  would you say? And why are you waiting?

Make sure you  read this to the end; you will understand why I sent this to  you..

Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go  round or listened to the rain lapping

on the ground?  Ever  followed a butterfly's erratic flight or gazed at the sun into  the

fading night? Do you run through each day on the fly? When  you ask, 'How are you?' Do you hear the reply?

When the  day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores  running

through your head?  Ever told your child, 'We'll do  it tomorrow.'And in you haste, not

see his sorrow? Ever  lost touch?  Let a good friendship die? Just call to say  'Hi?

When you worry and hurry through your day, it is  like an unopened gift.... Thrown away...

Life is not a race.  Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is  over.    


To those I have  sent this to... I cherish our friendship and appreciate all you  do.  

'Life may not be the  party we hoped for... but while we are here we might as well  dance!