"No Regrets"

One of the greatest blessings over the past two months that Dawn and I have had is the wonderful time to talking and hanging out together. We have always enjoyed each others company however as you can imagine today each conversation, each moment, and yes even every word has special meaning. Therefore every word is rather well thought out, every topic one that is worthy of conversation, not because you have made the effort to screen your thoughts, no it is because when your with someone you love there is no such thing as wasted conversation, time ill spent. Have we ever forgotten this, of course, will we ever again, doubtful, were to grateful to forget.
When you look back on your recently completed day, what is it that you see? Are there high points that you would desire to see more of, or possibly failures that you hope you will never experience again? Hopefully there is never a day you cannot remember, for those are the ones that are truly wasted. If your day has high points then you have succeded, you have experienced something you enjoy, something you will hunger for more of.
Imagine if you had never tasted your favorite flavor of chocolate, until you have you truly don't know what you are missing, and once you have you desire more. Isn't that how life should be to a certain degree? If each day that we experience something that brings joy to our spirit then our spirit is constantly growing, reaching new boundaries, expanding our territory of blessing.
If you experience failures in your day they too can be used for good as long as we recognize them for what they are and learn from them. In order to fail we must be attempting to win, otherwise it would not be failure at all, no it would simply be nothing. In order to recognize a failure as such it must be the result of something not being fulfilled, hence something was attempting to be fulfilled, make sense. So yes failure is better than nothing! The true waste of life and time is when there is nothing happening, no successes no failures, no joy, no happiness, no goals, no relationships, no conversations, and so on.
For those who beleieve we truly must remember that our goals, dreams, and visions must be influenced by the fact that we are children of the most high God. Influenced by a desire to change some part of our world in some way, every day. I'm not talking about standing on the street and proclaiming Jesus to everyone who walks by, no it's about just being a person who lives with no regrets. If we purpose to not regret our actions, or our words, then we will be a catalyst of change. Why you ask? Because the world does not have regrets, the world seeks it's own, it has no consience, it simply exists!
I am determined to live every moment of my life on this earth without regrets, will I fail, yes, however I will not regret it!
Today Dawn had another chemo treatment and things went rather well, unfortunately chemo has become routine stuff for us, not something you want to be good at. Tomorrow we go in again for day two which is a much stronger drug with many more side effects, the worse being sensitivity to cold. Actually a better way of putting it would be: and extreme and painful sensitivity to anything below 98.6, yeah no walking barefoot, no tap water, no opening the refirgerator door, all are too painful. Please join me in praying that Dawn would not experience this side effect any longer, seeing her suffer is my least favorite thing in life, and lately I have seen far too much of it.
Bless you all
Gene