Today is
Not just
Another day
Wake up
Get going
Live today
As if you've
Never lived
Ever before!
Just because
You can!
© 2017 Jim Davis
Inspired by a friend of mine, James A. McBride, who had a heart transplant!
His words below;
"Not everybody gets a do-over. Life has a certain inevitability to it that is unavoidable. It ends. There will always be a mark on our headstones that says Lived 1952-2014. But, it’s the decisions we make that can make that time between the dashes, that time that we are alive more significant. Hell, a decision you make may even change the date that is after someone else’s dash. It did for me. That was the date my headstone was destined to bear until a young man, a total stranger, made his decision to be an ***** donor. Every day I think about him and his family, about the hurt that they felt, and still feel today. They mourn the anniversary of their young son, their brother and their kin on the same day my family and I celebrate my do-over.
My whole life I have been trained, as a Marine, as a Police Officer, to put my life in front of others. I am truly humbled to recognize that sacrifice someone made when they put their life in front of mine. I will not find the cure for cancer; I will not bring peace to the world. I will, instead, get to continue to be me. Celebrating every beat of his heart by trying to be the best me, to make people laugh, to remind a stranger that they are beautiful and to share his gift the best way I can.
My young niece asked my sister shortly after the transplant, “Will Uncle Jim still love us since he has a new heart?” I told her that when they took my heart out, they poured all the love I had for my family into the new one, and they left all the love he had for his inside. My heart was filled with love for people I had never met. It made her smile, and it still makes me smile as well."