In The End...What Really Matters?

What do you want to accomplish in the end?  Want to live and end well.  Interestingly, here are the two biggest regrets people confess on their death bed, according to Bronnie Ware's survey:

1. I wish I'd have the courage to live a life true to myself, and not the life others expected of me.
This was the common regret of all.  When people realize that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled.  Most people had not honored even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made.

2. I wish I didn't work so hard.
This came from every male patient that I nursed.  They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship.  Women also spoke of this regret.  But as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners.  All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.

I really enjoyed and was challenged by this message at Shoreline Church.  It also allowed me to realize how rich I am and even how "socialist" God can be.  I am not saying we serve a Socialist God, but God wants us to take from our resources to take care of those less fortunate than us (without expecting anything in return). I find the message very applicable to my life, and I hope you do too.

This is how "rich" I really am:

Talk about grateful and wealthy!  It doesn't get better than this.