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Dust thou art and to Dust thou Shalt Return.
3 years ago
Today is Ash Wednesday. The beginning of Lent, the ramp up to the Easter season. It is a time of reflection for those that follow Jesus.
According to Psalm 90: “Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away. ”
This verse hits home to me as I come off another major arthritic attack, and watch my blood pressure creeping into dangerous levels. I have seventeen years left, possibly even less looking at the mortality rate on my mother's side. It is a sobering thought. This is stuff you generally don't think about when you are in your teens – 20's.
What have I actually accomplished with my life? Have I been useful to anyone, or anything? When I am gone will the world be better, or worse off because of me? Will anyone even notice me gone? What happens to me after I die?
Those are not easy or simple questions. But I have the next forty days to ponder them.
According to Psalm 90: “Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away. ”
This verse hits home to me as I come off another major arthritic attack, and watch my blood pressure creeping into dangerous levels. I have seventeen years left, possibly even less looking at the mortality rate on my mother's side. It is a sobering thought. This is stuff you generally don't think about when you are in your teens – 20's.
What have I actually accomplished with my life? Have I been useful to anyone, or anything? When I am gone will the world be better, or worse off because of me? Will anyone even notice me gone? What happens to me after I die?
Those are not easy or simple questions. But I have the next forty days to ponder them.
And fwiw I've known you since SWO and the bats in the belfry forum, I'd notice.
(Egad, that has been quite a while!)
You are absolutely right. Given world politics today, 24 hours can change everything. This year I'm a little more pensive, as I lost my best friend to Covid, and an elderly uncle...