Do not Die with Your Music Still in You

Here's a piece of bad luck I've seen happen: A man hoards far more wealth than is good for him And then loses it all in a bad business deal. He fathered a child but hasn't a cent left to give him. He arrived naked from the womb of his mother; He'll leave in the same condition—with nothing. This is bad luck, for sure—naked he came, naked he went. So what was the point of working for a salary of smoke? All for a miserable life spent in the dark?
Make the Most of What God Gives After looking at the way things are on this earth, here's what I've decided is the best way to live: Take care of yourself, have a good time, and make the most of whatever job you have for as long as God gives you life. And that's about it. That's the human lot. Yes, we should make the most of what God gives, both the bounty and the capacity to enjoy it, accepting what's given and delighting in the work. It's God's gift! God deals out joy in the present, the now. It's useless to brood over how long we might live.

Ecclesiastes 5:16-20

We will all leave in the same condition that we entered this world - naked and with nothing. If this is our lot in life what are we to do with that? I would say that we need to make sure that we leave "it all on the field" as my coaches used to say. Too many of us try to be safe. We work hard, store up, and make the "safe" choices in life. We take the sure thing. We tell ourselves that the sure thing is working everyday, storing up treasures here, planning for the future, and saving our selves up for some "rainy day" in the future that might come.

Yet each one of us has been given music to play by our Creator. We have a service to perform for others, our music to play. Many of us never play this music. We know it is there, we hear it deep in the background of our mind and our life. We know that we are playing the wring notes right now, but are too fearful to play what is really inside of us. We are instead worried about how long we will live, what we have, and how we can keep from taking any risk. Our music never gets played. I do not want to die with my music still in me. I want to play every last note that my Creator has given me to play. This is my service to God and to others. To have my light shine by playing my music. What is your music? Are you playing that music or are you playing it safe. Are you hoping that you never have to get on the field and leave it all there or are you begging to get in the game and leave it all there? Do not die with what God has place in you still in you.

Namaste'