Do I really want to haggle over who did the dishes yesterday? Do I want to worry about paying off the credit card or going to my best friend’s destination wedding? Is the conflict over what restaurant we eat at worth the energy, given this could be our last meal together? Facing death helps us put things in perspective and frees us to view life as a gift, not an entitlement. If we live aware that our time is limited and our next breath could be our last, we can receive each day as a benediction, a word of blessing that could be a closing to our story. Every day becomes another, perhaps even
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