Not too long ago I was listening to a song
I’ve heard many many times before.
It wasn’t a song I particularly like,
but on this day I really heard it.
What stood out for me was this part of the chorus:

“…a moment like this
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this “

Many things came to mind,
namely that I couldn’t think of a moment
that I had NOT waited a lifetime for.
That’s what our life is comprised of: moments.

So then I got to thinking about how much
we wait for these “moments”.

Do you realize that there is a good chance
that the very “moment” that we wait and wait
and wait for is happening somewhere else
in the world at this very moment ?
What I would also dare to mention is that this
“moment” is happening because someone else
did not wait for it to happen, but rather
went after it and made it happen.

“SOME people wait a lifetime for a moment like this”
Yes, some people do -
while other people are living them.

By now at least one of us has realized
that I am going in an entirely different
direction than I had originally planned.

But do you realize that that we spend
far too much time waiting ?
We wait for the right timing
We wait for the right moment
We wait for the right opportunity.

What if what we wait for never arrives ?

I’m reminded of a story I heard a long time ago,
and I wonder if I haven’t told you this already.

A man was going through his wife’s dresser
while his brother sat nearby.
As he went through, he mentioned things
about several pieces that he came across.
At one point he came across a beautiful outfit -
I think it may have been some fancy lingerie from New York.
You can tell it’s bringing back memories,
and he tells his brother that he’d never seen her in it yet -
that she’d been saving it for a special occasion.
“Well, it looks like this is it…” he told his brother.
Tears filled his eyes as he said this,
and suddenly he turned to his brother exclaiming;
“Never save anything for a ’special occasion’ “
and he placed the outfit with the rest of
the clothes for her funeral…

Listen, you and I both have something
that we’re waiting for just the right time,
moment, or opportunity to make happen.
If you don’t have any – let me give you a few of mine !

But I’ve got to tell you,
the day will come when it really will be too late.

Let your “special occasion” be
every breathe you take;
every new day you awaken
and are blessed to be alive.

~Rob