May 2025 Got someday dreams? Stop dithering and dive into doing.

It’s May, and spring’s beautiful new life is all around. But today I’m thinking about death.

Tennessee’s spring is winding down, the dogwood blooms already gone, but daffodils still brighten southern Wisconsin where I was unexpectedly the past few days.

For a funeral.

It was a celebratory funeral for sure, a long life well-lived for the Lord, but it still was a reminder that life here goes by quickly and there’s no guarantee on the number of years or the number of years of health each of us will have.

So, I’m reminding all of us to get moving.

I’ve written about this before, after the way-too-soon death of a friend who had been living a full, active life. And today I’m reprising some of it because we all need this nudge.

Whatever it is you are dreaming about doing someday, stop dithering and go for it.

Some of you who read this missive are working on your first book, or just dreaming of writing the first book. Or you may have travel dreams, or dreams of a new business venture, or a desire to serve the Lord in a new way.

Others of you may have a broken relationship that needs to be repaired. Maybe it’s just me, but in recent months I’ve been hearing snippets of stories about relationships broken because of differences of opinion over admittedly big topics like Covid response or even recent politics.

But in the lens of decades of life, those issues are not worth losing a relationship with a loved one. You don’t have to ever agree on the topic. But you can agree on loving and valuing one another and setting an example for the younger people watching you.

The funeral we just attended was for an uncle who achieved his goal to live to 100, and it was a reminder of the longer lens of years of time and focusing on what really matters. The love of friends, the love of God and serving Him, those things last long past disagreements on how things are being done on earth.

And if the thing about which you are now thinking seems way too big to tackle, it probably is all in one bite or on your own. Praying about it, and about the first step, is a good way to start.

The nudge is for me too, as I review my own plans and dreams with this reminder that we don’t know when God will call us.

May each of us move to act on things about which we may be dithering and use our time wisely and for His glory.