Appreciating Life.

My 29 year old professor told us she just found out that an old friend of hers was killed in Afghanistan this past week. It was a voluntary, third tour in a noncombat situation. They were only a couple weeks apart in age. 29 years old. My prof said how it was one of those friends where they lost touch over the years, but she had always meant to try to get in contact with but just never found the time. It's crazy how you truly never know when you might never talk to someone again, or when your own life can be cut so short.

I really try to remember that fact every day, but it's easy to lose sight of it. We get in petty arguments, hold grudges, get angry, don't appreciate the good & instead focus on the bad. A lot of energy is wasted with the negative, and I'm making it a goal of mine to stop doing that.

I don't think God created this earth and us as human beings to stop talking to a friend because they didn't call you back or curse out a driver who just cut you off on the freeway (ha).
We are here as followers of Christ.

What is the greatest commandment?
"Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" (Matthew 22:37-39)