The last time

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You never know when your last interaction with someone might be.

We had this happen to us today. We were getting ready to head home from the car dealership and my wife wanted to stop by and say hi to her grandparents with the kids. So we all stopped and ended up eating Taco Bell at their place and spending the evening with them. It was pretty low key but towards the end, of our time there her grandpa started rubbing his chest and not acting normal. He decided he needed to take a nitro. We decided it was time to head home, but her aunt stayed there with her grandparents. That was about 7 pm. We got a call at about 7:30 pm that her aunt was doing CPR on him and he was going to the ER, he wasn't breathing. He passed away at about 10:30 pm last night.

It's surreal that we were just with him and saw him as he was dying. I didn't realize it. My wife didn't realize it. Had we known what would we have done differently? I probably wouldn't have joked about him seeming like he was feeling better as we were leaving. We probably would have wanted to pray with him. Why were we the last ones to have dinner with him? Well, part of that was because my wife has made many conscious decisions to go spend time with them since we live fairly close. This drives home the point that spending time with people is so much more important than tasks and stuff.

You never know when it will be the last time. Go spend some time with someone today. Go share the love of Jesus Christ with someone today.

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