For Granted

Have you thought deeply about the process of waking up? Before you go to bed, dwell on it. You're going to close your eyes, your heart rate is going to slow down, all metabolic processes will slow down too...but why won't they stop? What's keeping that heart of yours pumping? What's the guarantee that it's going to go on pumping the next couple of seconds?
Sure you've got the body of an athlete, or your work-out routine is just off the charts and, your diet is the best thing that could have happened to you and yada yada yada.
If you're reading this, then you have breath, you have life and you have hope. It means that you got back home safely, or you arrived at your destination safely. It means you have eyes to read and maybe ears to hear too.
It means you have another chance to make things right, another day to savor, to play away, to laugh, to cry, to help someone, to love someone, to make a difference.
But on the other side of the coin...someone isn't going to wake up to read this. Their eyes will be shut forever, no breath, no life. Maybe they didn't make it back home, maybe they did but never woke up. Maybe they had woken up but had their life taken away...maybe they died giving life to someone else...who knows.
Some people didn't have to dig the earth to be buried, it just opened up and swallowed them up. Some of them may have wished for a lavish funeral; golden casket, tuxedo, and blaa blaa blaa...but guess all that is gone underground now.
For some it was a sudden watery grave, swift, and overwhelming. The options are endless.
My point really is...if you're alive today(well or unwell),promise to always give God the thanks. the moment you open your eyes, just say it. Thank you God for the gift of another day.