Choices

Major Margaret Houlihan, head nurse on the old television series M.A.S.H. is in the operating room in one episode.  Someone she has been caring for has just died.  She says, “It never fails to astonish me.  You’re alive.  You’re dead.  No drums.  No flashing lights.  No fanfare.  You’re just dead.”
Yes, Major, it is that way, at least from one perspective.  People die constantly and the world goes on.  People are here…then gone…and no one seems to pay much mind, except for those few who are friends and loved ones of the deceased.  Someone else quickly steps in and takes over the job that person had done down at the office.  Someone else quickly moves into the hospital room where the person who died had been.  Someone else needs the nursing home room that the now-deceased person had occupied.  Someone else takes the slot reserved for the dead person at the doctor’s office, the golf course, the theater, or the KU basketball game.  And life goes on.
The greater question, though, is what we have done during the time we were alive.  Did we make the world a better place?  Did we love instead of hate, give instead of receive, encourage rather than discourage?  Did we seek out our Creator and accept His offer of a relationship with Him that transcends even death?
While you’re alive, you make the choices.  When you die, the opportunity for choices disappears.  What choices are you making today, right now?  What choices should you be making today, right now?