It’s About Living in the Present, I have been blogging for a little over a year I think. I never knew what blogging was when I started, I just looked it up one day and started figuring out how to do it. And I have met some wonderful people through this thing called word press.

And today I would like to Dedicate this post to a fellow blogger whom I discovered back in July of 2019. His site name is ” The Rural Iowegian“, I was intrigued right away, first because he was from Iowa, where I live. Second he is a photographer and a wonderful writer with daily ‘Thoughts of Today” that he writes on his page. Words of Wisdom to me.

I was reading one of his latest post where he talked about taking a photography class and the teacher asked everyone what there goal was. And the Rural Iowegian said the following words;

 I told Doug that I wanted to take one photograph that made people look at it and just say “wow!”

Is it important to know whether or not I succeeded?  In the big scheme of things, probably not.  Is it important to me?  I think so.  I have never thought of myself as one who has left a permanent footprint in the sands of life, and it would be nice to know if I reached at least this one goal so that after I am gone, someone might look at that photograph and still say “wow”.

Well dear Sir, your photos never went unnoticed from the day I found your first post in July of 2019. Matter of fact I have said wow many times. You are truly a gifted photographer and thank you for sharing your visions and words of wisdom.

Certain post of his stick out in my mind, from making Sun Catchers, to photographing beautiful parks in Iowa. To building a shed in his back yard that he said was physically harder than he thought it would be. But he never gave up. What I took away from your words of wisdom is that you never gave up. Nor will you give up on this next chapter of your life.

Every post he ended it with “Thoughts of Today.” Well, yesterday the title to his post was; My Last Thought;

He wrote; There comes a time in everyone’s life when the end has become all too evident.  Today, that became my time.

He along with others in due time, myself included, we will all write our last post. We will discover that time is precious, that living in the present is so very important. And to enjoy life to the fullest and never forget to ask the Father;

LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

Yesterday is gone forever; Tomorrow will always be unknown; Live in the Now

Thank you – Mark Cooper ; MSgt/USAF Aka; The Rural Iowegian

By Mark Cooper; The lyric that escaped me for 25+ years speaks to what I do for a living and those that I try to help.  It’s about living in the present, and yesterday it hit me for the first time. 

The lyric is: Coming Back to Life

I know where I come from and where IAM going. I will never die I simply disappear into Creation where I came from and see what is on the other side of the door. 

It’s About Living in the Present

by Sandra J