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Saturday, October 17, 2020

Back in 2004 Tim McGraw sang a song entitled "Live Like You Were Dyin'." It's about a 40-year-old who gets some devastating news from the doctor that he is dying and doesn't have all that much time left. Probably like most of us, we'd ask the doctor, "Well, how much time do I have?" The doctor can guess, but that's about all he can do, just guess. So now the question became, if this is all the time I have left, what do I want to do? The lyrics goes on and talk about how the patient went sky diving, rocky mountain climbing and rode some bull named Fumanchu. But he also said he loved deeper, spoke sweeter and forgave freely.

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