You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath! Psalm 39: 5
One day, an Uncle of the writer suddenly realised that he has become an elderly man and in a quick flash said “life is too short!”. Ever since then I’ve been meditating over that statement and ever now and then its meaning becomes clearer and clearer to me. I related it to all the young children we started life together but who have since departed at one point or the other. I related it to my parents who seemed to me to have lived long, each of them spending not less than 85 years. I related it to my self, the last born of my mother who have suddenly turned 53! I was at our old farm and recalled the huge population of both young and elderly people in the community with whom we all related in the farms in the entire 60’s and I see them no more. Then I related it to the Biblical stories of great and low men and women who have lived before us and are now remembered only by history!
Then I asked myself “where are they? Will they ever come back? Can we still have a repeat of the good old days?” But alas! All that is history. Yet, no matter how long we live, we shall all ‘disappear’ one day. Life is truly brief and we need to just try to enjoy in the fear of the Lord during our own brief portion in it.
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