What do you do when you realise your time is running out?
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In the past week, I've started a Cardiology term. We had a patient who had a major heart attack. Fortunately, he was rushed into the cath lab in time for a life-saving procedure to re-open his blocked heart vessels.
As my boss put it the next day - he was very lucky to be alive.
As a doctor, I see plenty of life and death situations each day. I see cancers, strokes, heart attacks, kidney failure, dementia.. the list goes on and on.
And as I age, I see it in the people around me - relatives, friends and their parents too.
Life truly is so fragile.
I am forced to question - have I become guilty of getting so caught up in routine and my own agenda that I have forgotten we aren't promised tomorrow?
Perhaps if I kept this perspective, I would live a bit more freely, perhaps I would forgive a bit more quickly, dream a bit more courageously, give even more generously, be more thankful for the abundance that I have, hold on to what truly matters, share of the joy and love Christ has given me more often and squeeze every last drop of goodness that today has to offer.
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In the past week, I've started a Cardiology term. We had a patient who had a major heart attack. Fortunately, he was rushed into the cath lab in time for a life-saving procedure to re-open his blocked heart vessels.
As my boss put it the next day - he was very lucky to be alive.
As a doctor, I see plenty of life and death situations each day. I see cancers, strokes, heart attacks, kidney failure, dementia.. the list goes on and on.
And as I age, I see it in the people around me - relatives, friends and their parents too.
Life truly is so fragile.
I am forced to question - have I become guilty of getting so caught up in routine and my own agenda that I have forgotten we aren't promised tomorrow?
Perhaps if I kept this perspective, I would live a bit more freely, perhaps I would forgive a bit more quickly, dream a bit more courageously, give even more generously, be more thankful for the abundance that I have, hold on to what truly matters, share of the joy and love Christ has given me more often and squeeze every last drop of goodness that today has to offer.
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