This weekend has been beset by deaths and the rushing of loved ones into hospital for a number of people that I know and serve. Another community has been hit by the death of a friend and fellow hobbyist who saw taking his own life as the only way out. A family mourns the loss of their unborn child and others at the death of old, but not elderly, family members.
"The only two certainties in life are death and taxes." So said Benjamin Franklin speaking of the terminal condition that is life itself. Well we pays our taxes and we moves ever faster to our own demise - but this is not a moment for gloom but a moment to celebrate what we have and what those who have perhaps left us have left us with.
Can I encourage all who read this to take pleasure in the people they have around them and to take just a moment to regard how they live their lives. What we hold today could just as easily be gone tomorrow, regardless of age or health, for indeed all the days we have are in the book and when the page turns there is no opportunity to re-rad our lives.
Let's try to live each day as if it were our last and let's help others live that way too.
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinner or sit in the seat of mockers.
But has his delight is in the law of the LORD and on His law he meditates day and night.
He is like a tended tree planted by streams of living water which brings forth its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
Not so the wicked! For they are like the chaff that the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgement
Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous
But the way of the wicked will perish. (Psalm 1)
May we prosper and bear fruit today and all the days that we have before us.
Pax
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