Things Left Undone

For the past weeks, I've been reflecting on this fleeting life of ours in this world. It must be because of the death of a handful of friends and relatives for the past month that made me realize that indeed our life here on earth is just a short one since our real LIFE eternal is with God in heaven.

Anyways, I'd like to share with you a beautiful poem by Adelaide Proctor that reminds us to do the things we have left undone. There's not better time to do all the 'things left undone' but NOW because tomorrow might be too late.

It isn't the thing you do, dear
It's the thing you leave undone,
That gives you the bitter heartache
At the setting of the sun;
The tender word unspoken,
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have sent, dear,
Are your haunting ghosts at night.

The stone you might have lifted
Out of your brother's way,
The bit of heartfelt counsel
You were hurried too much to say;
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle and winsome tone,
That you had not time or thought for,
With troubles enough your own.

These little acts of kindness,
So easily out of mind,
These chances to be angels,
Which even mortals find--
They come in nights of silence,
To take away the grief,
When hope is faint and feeble,
And a drought has stopped belief.

For life is all too short dear.
And sorrow is all to great,
TO allow our slow compassion
That tarries until too late.
And it's not the thing you do dear,
It's the thing you leave undone,
That gives you the bitter heartache,
At the setting of the sun.

So, if there's any kind deed or things that you've been wanting to do for someone but have left it undone.. then now is the best time...for tomorrow might be too late...