Of What Lies Ahead...

 On the weekend something about the swiftness of Time was talked about

(the way people fast moving past the middle stage of middle age are apt to do)

and hubby remarked how it seems wise to think much more about the magnitude of
what lies ahead rather than focus on how much time has left behind 

because there is far, far more ahead than behind no matter how far back we look!

Yes. 

2 Peter 3:8-9

‘But do not forget this one thing, dear friends:
With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.
 He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish,
but everyone to come to repentance.’

 Isaiah 40:6
A voice says, "Cry out!" And I asked, "What should I cry out?"

 "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

Psalm 103:14-16

 …For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.

As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.…

Much more ahead than behind

The ash of ages spent

Is like a whisp of mist or wind

To bit-of-Being lent

A bloom that flares and fades

Then falls…to Bygone wed

As moment unto moment trades

All but what lies ahead

Where thought, with all its might

Cannot begin to grasp

What lies ahead as Soul takes flight

After this life is past

The magnitude of days

Since Time began to be

Is but a sparkle on a maze

Of brief mortality

…when weighed against A Deep

We ought to keep in mind

Where always much more lies ahead

Than all we leave behind

© Janet Martin

A few message-excerpts from the book by Catherine Marshall...
 A Man Called Peter 

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