The Gift of Life

Though you are ashamed, broken, nobody loves you… no job, no car, no money… only people who tolerate you… know every life is a gift. Share good news with them every day—of Christ’s gospel—and eat your meals, if you can. Enjoy your labors, if you have them. If not, find labors. Cherish wisdom, and cherish truth. Love those you speak to on a daily basis, and do them no wrong. Forgive them when they are boring, or cruel, and bless them with your time and tongue.

Cherish your brother, and your sisters, and cherish your father and mother. Cherish your animals who share your company, and your grandparents. Cherish your friends, and cherish your enemies—for your enemies hate you, so give them every reason to stop. Love your enemies, and heap warm coals under their beds, to warm them at night, and speak blessings over them numerous, and though you die sheepishly at night, with nothing and no satisfaction… know life was a blessing.

It is a blessing because we eat our food, we drink our drink, we laugh, we keep company, and if we do not these things, at last, there is the sweet savor of death which will sweep us away into eternity.

Every day is a blessing, because you have the chance to teach yourself something new, speak something to someone they never knew, eat a brilliant meal, drink a brilliant drink, love someone you never loved, and forge friendships in fires of strife and hardship. And though friends hate you, and family, and society… they give you not an inch of your desires, and you suffer long… there is a world awaiting you, eternal, and a kingdom of 12,000 furlongs of golden Plateau. And there your heart will long, while you live to understand that moment you leave. But do not leave prematurely… seek the wisdom you can in life, to call others to that glorious mountain.