Get It While the Gettin's Good

Get that one!
We were having a blast collecting shells as we sit partially in the water at the beach. My grandson had just noticed a beautiful purple seashell at the same time I did. Get that one! Noticing it was about five feet from us, rather that getting him off my lap and walking to the shell, I decided to wait until after the next wave left. With an incoming tide, that next wave broke farther up the shoreline, rolled over the shell, and returned back to the ocean.
It's gone, Papaw! It's gone.
I noticed it at the same time. We waited, watched, and waited some more but we never saw that purple shell again. We had missed our opportunity.

Life is full of those-once in a lifetime opportunities. Most of us Christian adults know better; we know from experience time is quickly moving on and we have no guarantees that those opportunities will ever be available again. When we have them, we better do what my mountain kinfolk say, You better get it while the gettin's good.

If there is a letter you need to write, a hug to give, a call to make, a kiss to give, a witness to share, a blessing to bestow, a gift to give-do it now! This is the day. Seize the moment!
At any second, everything could change and you will never have that opportunity again.

Do not boast about tomorrow,
For you do not know what a day may bring forth. Prov. 27:1