Comments RSS 
Show you care while they are here.
May 5th, 2010
·
by Patricia Work Bennett · Filed Under: Express love · Personal Connections · Uncategorized
What does a bald, white, middle aged male from Utah (founder and CEO of my greeting card company) have in common with a 90-year-old black woman who just got a pacemaker?
They both intimately understand the meaning of time and the value of relationships. Earline, my former next door neighbor, sent me an email with the comments below. The doctor told her that her pacemaker would last 10 years. She told me she thought that would be long enough.
The CEO founded a company so we would never have to have regrets, words left unsaid, love unshared…
I hope you find these words that Earline sent me this past week as thought provoking as I did:
Read quietly then send it back on its journey
To realizeThe value of a sister/brother
Ask someone
Who doesn’t have one.
To realize
The value of ten years:
Ask a newly
Divorced couple.
To recognize
The value of four years:
Ask a graduate.
To realize
The value of one year:
Ask a student who
Has failed a final exam.
To realize
The value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
To realize
The value of one month:
Ask a mother
Who has given birth to
A premature baby.
To realize
The value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize
The value of one minute:
Ask a person
Who has missed the train, bus or plane.
To realize
The value of one-second:
Ask a person
Who has survived an accident.
Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment.
You will treasure it even more when
You can share it with someone special.
To recognize the value of a friend of family member
LOSE ONE…
The origin of this letter is unknown.
Remember….
Hold on tight to the ones you love!
So on behalf of the bald white man, the 90-year-old black woman, and me, please pay attention to your promptings to make contact.
Do you know what a prompting is? It’s that little voice inside (maybe an angel whisper) that tells you what you know you should do but that you try to ignore sometimes. Take the time to value what you have. Then you avoid regrets.
Have a grateful day!
