I have just received an email containing this good poem

The Lifebuilder' s Creed - by Dale Witherington

Today is the most important day of my life.
Yesterday with its successes and victories, struggles and failures is gone forever.
The past is past.
Done. Finished.
I cannot relieve it. I cannot go back and change it.

But I will learn from it and improve my Today.

Today. This moment. NOW.
It is God's gift to me and it is all that I have.

Tomorrow with all its joys and sorrows, triumphs and troubles isn't here yet.
Indeed, tomorrow may never come.
Therefore, I will not worry about tomorrow.
 
Today is what God has entrusted to me. It is all that I have. I will do my best in it.
I will demonstrate the best of me in it – my character, giftedness, and abilities -to my family and friends, clients and associates.
I will identify those things that are most important to do Today,

 and those things I will do until they are done.

And when the day is done I will look back with satisfaction at that
which I have accomplished.
Then I shall go to sleep in peace ... content.

This morning, I just received a rather-shocking news – my old-time friend since primary school died from Leukimia or blood cancer.

The death of our beloved really serves as an important reminder of the briefness of our physical life on earth. Attending wedding bash or celebrating a new-born baby may be full of joy and fun, but i guess attending a funeral could also do us good. When we stand at the doorstep of death, we could perhaps realise how we have wasted our fleeting time on earth with things that contain no eternal values. All successes and glories of no eternal values that we have achieved in life may seem meaningless, but yet all those very "successes" are the driving forces that spur many people to work harder, to sacrifice more, to sleep less and to live far away from God's purpose.

as the poem says:

Today. This moment. NOW. It is God's gift to us and it is all that we have. Today is what God has entrusted to us.

Death. To constantly remind ourselves about the unavoidable is wise. As the Bible says, teach me oh God to count the days, so that we can gain wise hearts. To ignore and pretend that the unavoidable is still far away is foolish. think that we can conquer and underestimate the inevitable is unwise.  Let's seize every opportunity in our lives. carpe diem. And prepare ourselves for eternity so that, when the day comes, we can face the unavoidable boldly with confidence in Christ. No regret. And then we can receive our eternal prize as the Master welcomes HIS servants home.