We live much of our life either counting up or counting down the days. We count up days to when we’ll be a teenager, get our driver’s license, graduate, get married, have children, retire, etc., and if we get a diagnosis like mine we have the temptation to start counting down our remaining days and think in terms of bucket lists and experiences and places we want to know or go before those days run out. These temptations serve only to distract us from living meaningful, fulfilled lives dedicated to glorifying God. If we are living one day at a time, it will not matter how many of those days we count. We’ve lost some friends who died suddenly and unexpectedly who had no idea that their days were numbered, that they had far fewer days than they or their families ever thought would occur. But if they, and all the rest of us, live one day at a time, filled with His Spirit, then every day is meaningful, fulfilled according to God’s will and to His glory. That will be a successful day whether it is followed by thousands more days or zero more days.
