All ls Lost

What if you realized how you had failed others and yourself…and now had no chance to do better, to make up for all your miscues.  If you were suddenly given a second chance, what would you do?  Could you live a better life for your own betterment and the needs of others?  Would you even try?  Jesus says that we must first lose our life before we can find it.  I think that this is a wisdom saying not confined to Jesus or any one religion.  Disaster can be a gift, if we survive it. The disaster comes unexpectedly and it seemingly defeats us.  All is lost.  We give up our life, and then get sudden grace, a surprising second chance.  Can we really turn ourselves around?  "Our Man," in the movie, All Is Lost leaves me with this question.  Besides trying to be a better person, if I am given the grace to live to be 74, I have four more years to get into the shape that Robert Redford was in when he made this movie.