Fifteen Minutes More

I will take you back to your childhood to start with. Do you remember when you made your first friend and you were playing and you heard that dreaded phrase? "It's time to go." You wanted just fifteen minutes more to play with your new friend. Remember that first car date and you took your date home, and standing on the front porch giving a kiss and holding hands. You felt like you were never going to see each other again and you though just fifteen minutes more would be great. How about holding your baby for the first time in the nursery, and the nurse says ok, time for baby to get some rest. This is another moment in time when you just didn't want to let go. Wouldn't fifteen minutes more been a good thing then? How about when you gave your heart to the Lord and you felt that spiritual closeness. Kneeling at the altar with Holy Spirit's arm around you. You knew when you walked through those doors you had to face the world again. Just fifteen minutes more with God would have been great. Finally, at the end of life's journey you are holding the hand of a loved one as they are about to slip into eternity. Fifteen minutes more just seems so little to ask at this point in time. So that is where the title comes from. OF all those times, I wish and maybe you wish we could have just had fifteen minutes more.