You could die before you finish reading this chapter. I could die while you're reading it. today at any moment.

But it's easy to think about today as just another day, an average day where you go about your life concerned with your to do list, preoccupied by your appointments. Focused on family or thinking about your desires and needs.

On the average day we live caught up in ourselves on the average day, we don't consider God very much. On the average day we forget our life truly is a vapor.

But there is nothing normal about today. just think about everything that must function properly just for you to survive,

for example your kidneys. The only people who really think about their kidneys are people who's kidneys don't work correctly. The majority of us take for granted or kidneys liver and lungs and other internal organs that we're dependent upon to continue living,

What about driving down the road at 65 mph on a few feet away from cars going the opposite direction at the same speed? someone would only have to jerk his or her arm and you would be dead. I don't think that's morbid, I think it's reality.

It's crazy that we think today is just a normal day to do whatever we want with to those of us who say "today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city spend a year there carry on business and make money" James writes, "why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow what is your life? are you a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." (James 4: 13-14)

When you think about it that's a little disconcerting but even after reading those verses do you really believe you could vanishat any minute? That perhaps today you will die? Or do you instead feel something how invincible?

Frederick Buechner writes, "intellectually we all know that we will die, but we do not really know it in the sense that the knowledge becomes a part of us.  We do not really know it in the sense of living as though it were true. On the contrary, we tend to live as though our lives would go on forever."