Where is your heart? Where's your treasure?

"Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions." --John Randolph

Boy is this a true statement.  Never is it brought home more fully than when you lose someone you love and enjoy spending time with.  Today we lost my brother-in-law.  My husband's oldest brother.  Probably the sibling he was the most like, and the closest too.  We had become aware in the last eight months that he had developed some serious illness, so we made sure that we didn't 'put off' seeing him or spending time with him.  And yet, while we knew this day would come eventually, we were still not prepared for it.  Especially my husband.  

A potent reminder to think very carefully about how you spend your time, so you have it to spend with those you most value and love.  One day, there will be no more days for you to get to enjoy with them anymore.  I have a list of things that I allow to be time-stealers.  That keep me from spending time with those who appreciate me and value my company, and vice-versa.  Today that changes.  I hope if anybody does see my words today, that they do the same.  Whatever petty differences you may have allowed to come between you and others you have loved, think about whether they are truly that important.  Because I have relationships where we both have allowed things to come between us, and it has lasted so long, that I don't think we can change it now.  The love has been banked to have almost no embers left.

And real love is not something we want to let go of lightly....nor your moments of this life to just any kind of time-stealer.  Choose wisely for both of these.