“If you forgive others their transgressions,
your heavenly Father will forgive you.
But if you do not forgive others,
neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.”
On June 12th, as I was landing in a plane to my home state, little did I know there was another plane headed to London a few hundred kilometers away that took off and crashed within 30 seconds of the same onto a medical college doctors’ accommodation.
Around 300 passengers died, and a dozen students and residents of the apartments also are seriously injured. I was just thinking, what did the pilot think as he yelled, Mayday… we are falling! … The sounds of everyone screaming and then crashing into buidlings and bursting into flames.
But one man walked out… literally walked out with minor cuts and bruises… His emergency door flew open, and he jumped out and ran for his life… and survived! It was God’s plan.
It wasn’t time for Him to meet the Lord. Families and children, elderly parents, and newlyweds are all now gone in a fraction of seconds… How fragile our life is! How mortal we are!
As I sit at my home with my parents sound asleep downstairs, it makes me rethink the day—how we take everything for granted… feelings, faith, our health, emotions, and even people around us. Every day when we operate on a patient, we do not realize how we deal with a life-and-death situation, and anything can happen. I have seen a mother of 2 at 37 years begging to die due to the immense pain she was in. It was sad and a raw reminder of how much I need to be forgiving and giving to everyone around me!
A diagnosis of cancer is often a death sentence for some patients, and being mentally prepared for it makes it even worse because that journey after the end of life is made alone! ALL ALONE! Just you and the father… Every day I think of all the sins I have committed, and I want to rush to confession and ask for endless forgiveness for those sins so I can clear my life and die.
Today I am here, and maybe someday I won’t be there. I think I want to live the rest of my life as a better human with love and respect for myself, my parents, and everyone around me. The mortality of life is a worthy reminder of how I should live my life.
Dear Lord
Help me love you and have faith in you. Your plan for me is what I need to follow and work up in my life. Guide me and help me be a better person.
AMEN
