“… and this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.” - Dead Poets SocietyIf life is limited to this earth, then yes tomorrow we die. Caught up in a series of haphazard events; quandary doldrums of listless breaths; running about with illusion abreast…for tomorrow we die. For if tomorrow we die, then let us continue to be concerned with the worries of the day; continuing in the manner in which we each play. Where every good intention remains as dust, and the very air we breathe subsides into an empty glory. Yet only if there were a hope, a way to be set free…a release from this tomorrow’s death.
And yet once again, we pronounce Jesus as the bread of life; our provision and our sustenance for all of eternity. Death to the one who has no bread, but life to the one who eats…and to him life all the more abundantly.
Therefore where do we place our concerns, and where do we devote our time? Is it in the dying moments of the day and the passing glory of tomorrow? How is it that we can sometimes forget so great a glory? For as Peter replies, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” - John 6:68 What else do we have to do, and where else do we have to go? What is it that is placed in our agendas that is of such dire importance? Shall we not seize this our food, capture it and hold on to it with all that we are, and by all that we have. Let us eat of it Today with all gladness! Giving of what we have been given. So that tomorrow (and even today) we (and all those who eat) may live!
“Do not labor for food which perishes, but for food which endures to everlasting life.” And furthermore, “how do you benefit if you gain the whole world, but lose your own soul in the process?”
Much love, much labor, and many prayers. g-
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