The Time of Your Life
My son jolted out of his sleep, eyes bulging, gasping for air but finding no room to exhale. His legs and arms were writhing, and his body began to stiffen.
Right away, I realized that he was choking. How exactly, I was not sure; but in the seconds that surprise settled into panic between me and my wife, I fleetingly thought to myself, “God, please don’t take him from us.”
I’ve never had the feeling of my life flashing before my eyes, but I know what it’s like to see the life of a child flash before your eyes. To have so many aspirations and goals slipping away, before the smiling, gurgling sweetheart you know as baby even has a chance to mature.
And another thing; they tell you that time slows down in moments of crisis. I can tell you first hand that time couldn’t move faster when it comes to a life and death situation. And maybe it wasn’t quite ‘life and death’ as it was ‘baby has mucous,’ but I know what it felt like.
And it felt like my life was teetering on the edge, because my little boy’s life was in the balance.
My son is okay, and endured little more than an ambulance ride and some hours in the emergency room. But time has taken on a new definition for me. It isn’t something that speeds along leaving opportunity in its wake; it’s the only commodity we are ever promised in this lifetime. And ultimately, you’ve either invested it or wasted it; every second.
God deserves all glory for allowing our family more opportunities to invest.
