Vaguely listening to the radio the other day, I heard a song which contained the phrase “between womb and tomb”.
Now, I have absolutely no idea of the song or the singer (I’m sure somebody will tell me), but the phrase immediately engaged my mind and thoughts.
The response in my mind went “.....Between womb and tomb, there is only one letter, and that letter is your life.”
Wow! Powerful stuff!
So what am I doing with my “one letter” of life? What are you doing with yours?
It can be very easy to get caught up in the everyday routine without much thought until or unless something suddenly stops us in our tracks. Redundancy, illness, bereavement, trauma, divorce: all these things and more pull us up short and shake us out of that routine.
I have only one letter of life.
Now I could pursue the lexical semantics here and point out that the “w” and the “t” between womb and tomb are the first and last letters of “what”........Just WHAT are you going to do with your life?!....
But whatever my mind does with the words, individual letters or meanings, ever since I heard the phrase, it has lodged in my mind, and impacted on my daily routine, my dreams, my present and my future.
So what am I going to do with my life? What do I need to help me achieve my goals? Who do I most want in my life to enrich it? What will give me that sense of richness and fulfilment in my life I most desire?
Try asking yourself those questions as you reflect on this phrase.
And then I challenge you to do something.
It’s only one letter, but it makes a huge difference.
Make it count.
