Find your melody. Sing your song.

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God has placed me on a new path. It’s different from my last journey, but in many ways, it feels familiar. I’m now working in hospice care.

When people hear the word “hospice,” they often think of death. I get that—but hospice is so much more. Hospice care is specialized in providing comfort, not just physically but emotionally, socially, and spiritually, for those with serious illnesses when treatments are no longer effective. It’s about relieving pain and suffering, offering peace in a time of great vulnerability.

Recently, I accompanied a hospice nurse to an older nursing home that happened to be across the street from a brand-new charter school and playground. As I walked in, something profound struck me. There, in one room, lay a patient in the last stages of her life. The walls around her were adorned with photos—family, friends, and snapshots of her younger, more vibrant self.

Just outside her window, children ran, jumped, and played with wild abandon, their laughter filling the air. It hit me: those children, in their joy, had no idea that just across the street, someone who once ran and played like them was now at the end of her journey.

Life is a gift. Our bodies, too, are gifts from God, though many of us—including myself—often take them for granted. We need to cherish this gift, nurture our bodies, and move them with intention while we can.

If you are reading this, I would like you to think about your loved ones who are in their sunset years. Maybe it’s time to give them a call or pay them a visit if it’s possible. I would also like you to take a moment out of your day to move with intention, laugh freely, and cherish the gift of life. We never know when our turn to reflect from that window will come.

And we need to remember to smile, laugh, be kind, and spread joy—because, in the end, life’s simplest pleasures are its greatest treasures.

There’s a beauty in the contrast, a melody in the song of life; the young and the elderly, separated by only a few yards, yet living at opposite ends of life’s spectrum.

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