What is your life?
I think it is interesting to notice the kinds of plans James uses when he talks about the shortness of life. “We are going to go to this city, spend some time there, run a business, and make a profit.’
For some people life is all about what we can do to make sire that we make the biggest gain. It is tempting to spend our whole life trying to can get and grabbing at the brass ring that we may or may not ever get. We make plans based on what is going to benefit us the most.
The problem is that it is so easy to get caught in this trap that we forget what life really is. What is life? It is nothing more than the morning mist that is quickly burned off by the rising sun. It is there, vaguely defined and sort of ethereal, and then it is gone. Poof! Life is over. The days, weeks, months, years, and decades have passed away and we ask ourselves, ‘what have I really done?’
We are constantly reminded of the brevity of life. Yet another television personality is dying at a tragically young age. She was well known for her party lifestyle and free living just a short time ago now she is dying of cancer in her mid-20s. She could never have imagined at the height of her popularity that she would be dead in a very short time.
Our lives are so short, so fragile, and so fleeting. What are doing with them?
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