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Hi Lovelies,

I'm sure most of you have heard by now about the death of Cameron Boyce, a Disney channel star and the boy 12 year old me was convinced would fall in love with me some day.
It threw me for a loop guys, after all, this guy was barely six months older than me. I watched him grow up on TV and social media. I never in a million years dreamed I was going to be told he passed away Sunday morning.

And yet, here we are.

We don't know how much time we have on this earth.

The world lost a good humored young, apparently healthy man on July 6th. And no one (at least publicly) had any idea that anything was wrong.

We are not exempt from that.

I've been thinking about death for the past couple days and how I put it on the backburner. It isn't in the forefront of my mind that the breath that I breathe could stop at any moment.

Nor should it be.

However, I believe it is important to live like we're dying. To love Jesus and people unapologetically. To not care if something you care about is deemed cool or sticks to the status quo. To understand that we aren't on this planet for very long and every day we are is a gift.

We don't think about days as gifts as often as we should. Or at least I don't.

For example, this week I'm going on not one, but two different trips I have been anticipating for months, I get to do some grown up things I've been getting ready to do, celebrate my mom's birthday, and work at my job that I love dearly.

This week is a gift, y'all.  Knowing me, though, I probably would've anticipated the next thing instead of thanking the creator of the gift for the gift he chose to give me. The truth is, I don't know what is going to happen this week. I have no idea if both of these trips will happen or if I'll make it to work at the end of the week.
Now, I should not go about my life in fear of death, but I should not be living my life for the future.

My world should consist of the right now, not ten years from now.

And that is hard. Especially when the day is mundane, when it's hot and you're grumpy and no one understands. When bad things happen and life sucks.

Sometimes life sucks. Sometimes you don't want the gift the Lord has given you with today.

I am right there with you.

However, perhaps when we live for today and not tomorrow we are able to find joys in today that we wouldn't have found if we were searching for tomorrow.

Live it up, lovelies. Live in the moment, "each day is a gift, that's why they call it the present."

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