Chance To Be An Angel

In an August 5th interview with Vanity Fair magazine, Ryan O'Neal spoke of his relationship with the late Farah Fawcett, "I would have been much kinder, more understanding, more mature. I'd lose some of the savagery. I don't know how she got cancer; maybe some of it was me."

I wonder; how many of us feel like that inside? I wish I would have been more kind, more helpful, more forgiving, more available, less busy, less selfish, less grumpy.

Adelaide Proctor wrote; "It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone, which gives you bitter heartache at the setting of the sun."

If there could be just one goal in life, I think it should be to minimize regrets. Proctor writes; "The tender words unspoken, the letter you did not write. The flower you might have sent, are your haunting ghosts at night. The stone you might have lifted out of your brothers way, the bit of heartsome counsel you were too hurried to say." Does any of this bring undone moments to your mind?

"These little acts of kindness, so easily out of mind, these chances to be angels, which even mortals find." We have so many opportunities to be the face of Jesus; possibly the only life line someone might receive. Are we too consumed to notice? Don't let woulda, coulda shoulda, be your epitaph. Your chance to be an angel to someone is just moments away.