I wept as I read this………it is one of the best sermons ever about living well!
DR. DAVID WEILL
Over 20 years as a transplant doctor at Stanford University Medical Center, I asked thousands of patients this very question when I first met with them to discuss getting a lifesaving lung transplant. It was a way to get them talking, and for me to learn what the person valued: in short, not if they wanted to go on living, which was obvious because the patient was in my clinic room — but why they wanted to go on living.
To hear their answers was a unique privilege. Most of us don’t get to ask that question of people who had weeks, months and sometimes years to sit on the side of their own coffin and contemplate what life really meant to them. Ultimately, they taught me the difference between mere lifespan and health span. Listening to them and sharing some of their stories is akin to participating in a unique kind of master class. If we know how we would spend our last day, we can then make decisions about how to spend our second to last day, our last year, our last decade and every day from this moment forward. The Rest of The Story Here
I want to get the book for sure! I have worried to much in my life worrying, “WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF ME!” A new day today! The Lord has given me today to change! Sharon has been a great help to me to change.