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Wednesday, August 04, 2004

The Shortness of Time

If you were referred to this site in response to an email regarding Doug Root, I encourage you to scroll down and read yesterday’s posting prior to this one-it can be found immediately below. The response to yesterday’s blog about my recently departed acquaintance was so overwhelming that I have opted to take this opportunity to expand on the theme. Doug’s passing, in his early 40's, serves as a reminder that there truly are no guarantees in this life we live. Most of us put off making our peace with God, friends, or family members. We put off financial planning, travel and service to our fellow man. We procrastinate some of the most important issues in our lives because they are cumbersome or inconvenient. Somehow, we reckon that from an actuarial standpoint that there will always "plenty of time" to get those things straightened out. For many of us that may well be the case. However, actuarial tables are based upon averages. If the average person lives until he’s 80, that means some people live to 97 and others will only make it until 30 or 40. The point is that not everyone will make it to their estimated life expectancy so the man is a fool who counts wholeheartedly upon it in his planning. Financial planning can happen over time, but spiritual planning does not offer such flexibility. We need to deal with our salvation and get our affairs in order with God in advance because the moment of our passing can rarely be known in advance. Forever is such a very long time to take any chance on wasting. Therefore, it behooves us to have a confirmed reservation in heaven not only for ourselves, but for those whom we care about as well. Sometimes we get busy or distracted and tend to forget about how fragile this gift of life really is. However, when someone we know passes away, we are forced to consider the life he or she lived, the part of life they missed out on, and where they have gone to. On those occasions, we come face to face with the potential shortness of our time here on earth and, if we are honest with ourselves, we are also reminded of the magnitude of eternity. May our lives reflect such a perspective.

The Shortness of Time
We are so easily entangled
In the daily rituals of life
Wooed into marching with the others
When we hear the drum and fife
Until our time grows so congested
With commitments we have made
That they rule our private worlds
And things eternal seem to fade
We forget about our first love
The God we say we care about
We slowly nudge Him to the background
Until He's shut completely out
Wake up! What are we doing?
These things we've let monopolize
Are merely meaningless diversions
It's time we finally realize
That only the things eternal
Matter in the larger scheme
We must not let the world seduce us
With its promises and dreams
We must shake ourselves and understand
And train ourselves to see
The shortness of the time we have
And the magnitude of eternity
By Frank Carpenter ©

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