There are many times when we are tempted to put off something that should be done, thinking that will be easier or more convenient if we wait until later. Yet there are many opportunities that will never come again. We either seize them in that moment or we lose them forever. Dale Carnegie said, “I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” The open doors that are in front of you today—to witness, to encourage, to comfort, to teach—may never come again. We must be diligent not to miss these opportunities.
There is no guarantee that the opportunities before you today will ever be repeated in the future—seize them while you can.