Life and death

On Tuesday, one of my mentor teacher's from last semester passed away. She was 32 years old and died of childbirth complications. Someone told me her liver failed. The baby lived so she leaves behind her husband and now two girls. This was the closest death I have experienced in a long time. It just hits you kind of hard. I know I never had sent this teacher a thank-you card and always had wanted to. Now my chance is gone. I went to the visitation today. It was an open casket which was the first one I've ever been to. My teacher was a world traveler and had visited around 50 countries. She was holding her passport in her hand.

Life is so fleeting. Not that I wished she had died, but everyone always needs a little reality check like this once in a while. We need to stop and re-evalute the life that we live. Are you doing everything we can to love those around us? Are we wasting our days? Are we putting our treasure in earthly things or things that will last past our time on this earth?

It makes me think of a song I hear on the radio a lot by Building 429. The chorus goes:

"All I know is I'm not home yet, this is not where I belong. Take this world and give me Jesus, this is not where I belong."

May we all make the most of our time on earth but also remembering where our real home is.