And If Your Life Should End Today

And if your life should end today, What would be left undone? What tasks be left to other hands At set of your day's of sun? What heart be left unsatisfied By some unspoken word Of praise, or thanks, or sorrow, by Some needful heart unheard?

Which angry word would still await Your motion of regret, Or which heart needing binding Would you leave and forget?
What tears would wait for drying if You left, still in disdain, For all the wrong your pride had done To cause another's pain.

What if you die in bitterness, About some wrong you feel, And wake to find no healing there Because you would not heal?
And what if you but dreamed you died But woke the morrow morn;
Would you, perhaps, be kinder then To those whom now you scorn?
Would you full grasp the chance you're given To put all matters right, Before you go into that dawn That lies behind `goodnight'?

Then take the opportunity To set your life aright, And be a healer amongst men, A scatterer of light.
No longer seek for victory Where none is to be found, But be as Christ, forgiving all, And by his rule be bound.

For life is short, and we do not Return here once we're done, But into other spheres we go, When mortal life is run.
And if we have been fair and just, And upheld Mercy's name, Our God will be as Merciful
When we are called by name
To stand before the pleasing bar Where chronicling angels sing, And each receive our recompense From Heaven's gracious King.
Then Justice, Truth, and Mercy will Upon our heads be set, If we have shown these qualities To all we ever met.
But if we have been miserly, However right we feel, In distributing our largesse, So likewise we shall feel
The frugal blessings of our God, Who gives them fair to all, But only if we have been fair, And let forgiveness fall
Without restraint upon the heads Of all His Children here.
Then we will find His Mercy pure And face him without fear
And if your life should end today, What would you leave behind? Some wasted chances, angry words, Or thoughts peaceful and kind?

Before you press your pillow down Ere this short day is through, Clean out your heart of evil schemes; It's really up to you!