7:47 p.m. – As the day ends, insights on how to look towards the following day

This blog is triggered by the unexpected text message that shocks: a healthy looking, tall guy, an easy-go-lucky presence inside the campus died of stroke. Many have spoken to him barely a week while others say they conversed that early afternoon. He died in the evening. It makes it relevant to consider that “as the day ends, insights on how to look towards the following day become in order. Few points might be credible: One- It is beyond one’s power to know when to die it is best to treasure life; Two – Gratitude for being alive should be accorded to the Maker and with it a sincere desire to ask forgiveness for the many faults, failures, sins against God and fellows. Three – Look towards the following day with new eyes for it is now seen as a gift and not as a right.

Days come and go but when it comes as another day to become better, then the rainbow appears. rain or no rain.