Just over a week ago we were still dealing with frost warnings and cold weather. Today is was 27 degrees C. It was beautiful and the sun was shining hot. You could almost watch the plants in the garden grow. In a matter of just a few days all has changed and with the change a new hope for the summer has arrived. Sometimes we're up and sometimes we're down - all of the changes that come are just new opportunities for living life to its fullest.
Tomorrow, June 14, we are have a pre-celebration for the 100th birthday of Mrs. Mary Arksey. On June 16 (Tuesday) she will have reached her 100th year. She told me last week that she, "Takes life just as it is." What does it mean to live for one full century? The ups and downs she has seen in her life have been many. She has seen death, birth and new things many times over. Her life span has occured during the most changing times in all of history. In North America we have changed from a mainly rural life to almost exclusively urban. We fly around the world in very short periods of times. Television brings the castrophies, joys and sorrows right into our living rooms. Computers and cell phones have changed the very methods in which we communicate. Everything is instant - from instant mashed potatoes and instant pudding to instantaneous communication. We have fast food, fast cars and fast living. Nothing is the way it was when Mrs. Arksey entered this world. Cars are faster and life is busier and seems to pass by more quickly. The old ways have given way to new ways that may not necessarily be better. The gentler qualities of past days are lost in the hustle and bustle of today. How we face each new tomorrow is the most important part of life. Do we face life with joy and expectation or do we face it with aprehension and dread?
Celebrate every day as if it were your 100th birthday. You never know which day might be your last. Make the most of the ups and downs of lving.
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