The Glass is Already Broken

I was cleaning the house one night while my husband was cooking dinner. He had a glass that he was using for bringing dried garlic back to life. This little glass was one of the only things that was really his that he brought along with him when we got married. I had the vacuum out and plugged into the outlet in the kitchen and while vacuuming the cord moved and knocked the glass off the counter. It shattered. I was really upset and felt like a real jerk because I had broken something of his, one of his few items. He wasn't upset at all and just wanted to make sure I didn't cut myself on the glass. He told me, "the glass is already broken". I didn't really get it at the time. So he explained it like this:

Our possessions are going to be gone eventually, we are going to be gone eventually. We will lose those that we love, no matter how hard we try to hang on or worry about it. Our end is inevitable - we will leave this earth eventually no matter what we do. That decision has already been made, that we will die. Our decision is what to do while we are still here - before the glass is broken. We are given the gift of a new day every day that we can either enjoy or spend the whole time worrying about what has already been decided. The glass is already broken, the end is going to happen.

Matthew 6:25-36 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes. Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you - you of little faith? So do not worry, saying 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

The glass is already broken. Enjoy it before it really breaks.