This blog was quiet while we were on vacation! My favorite excerpt from these two chapters is on page 43:
Don't we all act as though we're going to live forever? I mean, if I truly consider that this could be my last day on earth (and it very well could be), how would that change the way that I serve, love, and cherish my family? Greatly! Debi is at a different season of life. She has watched all of her children grow to adulthood and so she, very wisely, is reminding us to treasure our time. I'm so glad she did.
This, then, is the rule of life for wives: Live with thanksgiving, forgiveness, and joy, and enjoy all your moments as if they were your last. Someday, soon enough, they will be. (emphasis added)
Don't we all act as though we're going to live forever? I mean, if I truly consider that this could be my last day on earth (and it very well could be), how would that change the way that I serve, love, and cherish my family? Greatly! Debi is at a different season of life. She has watched all of her children grow to adulthood and so she, very wisely, is reminding us to treasure our time. I'm so glad she did.
2 comments:
Thank you for that eternal perspective! I always need to be reminded of the brevity of life and how really vital it is to live each day as if I will stand before God at any moment. I so want to hear Him say to me, "Well done My good and faithful servant...enter into the joy of your Master." (Matt 25:21,23). I am also not just living with my eternity in mind, but that of my children. How am I living and teaching them that this world is not the most important, but that eternity has greater rewards, greater joy, greater rest, greater satisfaction, and greater meaning than these few years on earth. Are they living eternity centered lives because they see through the veil of this life into the next because I am living that way for them? I have to admit that I am so convicted by this because I have been failing miserably on this task. Pray for me that eternity and God's kingdom agenda would be "in color" for me and that ALL else would be colorless and unattractive to me. I don't want to be the foolish woman who tears down her house with her own hands (Prov 14:1)
Jessica,
Thank you for recommending the Blue Letter Bible and 1828 Dictionary. They have both been extremely useful gaining a fuller understanding of Scripture to identify my sins.
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