Gently, autumnal breezes
Whisper over brown grasses
Through summer greens
Yielding now yellow and orange.
Like the caress of sweet Chernobyl air
Is life in surrender to death
Forboding a familiar numbness
Opaquely covering the soft nuance
Of a summer day giving way
To the inexorable coming of winter.
Longing, memories already fading
Into dreams and Paper Castles.
We are Rainbow Seekers passing through.
The ephemeral existence of man is a theme to which I keep returning these days. From our general perspective, a lifetime seems to go on forever, though that perspective changes over the years.
When I was young, summer days and blue skies seemed to go on forever. Summers seemed to be endless. I could not wait to be older. Old age was a very distant horizon.
As we get older, the pace of life quickens. We fill up our days to overflowing with busyness and activities. We are constant thinking, planning, worrying, distracted, looking forward, stewing over the past, attending to the needs of spouses and children and clients and customers and neighbors and co-workers and … we hardly notice how time passes. Continue reading “Why My Hope Is In You”
We can have every choice (but eternal life) without God, or we can let go of every other choice to choose God (and gain eternal life).
“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”
These familiar phrases from 1 Corinthians. 15:55 (quoting Hosea 13:14) jumped out at me as I read them again. Of course, I know that God has swallowed up death in victory through the resurrection of Jesus Christ! But, what does that really mean for us?
This statement is the tip of the iceberg, and it occurs to me that we cannot understand without remembering and contemplating “how we got here”. Therefore, we must go back to the beginning. Continue reading “Revisiting Life and Death: The Gospel from Beginning to End”
Take a few moments and read this … and remember it.
Every shriveled old man or woman was once young and vibrant like you.
You and I will end up like this … if we are fortunate to live that long.
Life is short. It will come to an end.
Make the most of your days while you are young. Live a life well lived.
Trust the rest to God.
We go from dust to dust. It is what we do in the middle that matters.
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