We so often say or do things that hurt the people around us. The worst is that most of the time we are wrong and we are too proud to turn around and admit it. We seldom apologise when we hurt our loved ones because according to us they deserve it, and then in a few years time we find ourselves drifting apart and we wonder how this is possible. Maybe it is because the person we hurt, changes from lovingness, to not feeling anything and pretending, to a slow and quiet hate until one day when they have had enough. We hurt our partners, husbands or wives, parents and children on a daily basis, and most of the times it is because we do not understand them.

In today’s lives we are so focused on getting rich and successful that we forget the important people around us. The sad part is that when we leave this life we cannot take any of our richness with us, the only thing we can take with is the love for God and the love of our family and friends, and their love for us.

Let me tell you a little story. I know of a woman that truly loved her husband. Whenever he needed her to do things for him, she left what she was doing and she got it done. She was a good wife and a good mother. They relocated to a new town and because of circumstances she had to be there a week before him. He had to stay behind to finalise a few minor things. The day before he was suppose to drive down to be with them she sent him some messages that he just ignored. According to her knowledge he was with family and he could just as well have given her the five minutes of his time. She later received a very nasty message back from him, where he called her deep and true love “neediness”. He threw the love she had for him back in her face. According to her he was too busy getting things ready to leave to just give her a few minutes.

This is what I mean when I say that we are so consumed with the world and its things that we sometimes miss the more important things in life. We often try to compensate for the lack of love and time with money. We give our kids money and send them off so that we do not need to spend time with them. We buy the people we love expensive gifts hoping that they will not demand a little of our time. 

How often have we not done the same thing to God. He reaches out to us in love and all we do is call it neediness and throw it right back into His face. Yet God does not give up on us. He carries on time after time and continues to show us His love. Maybe it is time that we give some of it back. Like the lady I mentioned above who didn’t ask for an entire day from her husband but only a few minutes of his time. God also just ask that we must spend a few minutes of our day with Him. He does not ask for hours only a few minutes.

Maybe we must go back and look at the things that are more important to us than having fame and fortune and start appreciating what’s in our lives a bit more, before it is to late.

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