While I cannot help but immerse myself in a bit of nostalgia as I listen to these grade-school girls(see previous post) laughing and chattering, and knowing that this stage is CLOSED(most of these girls are parting ways and going to different schools and with Victoria being the youngest, this is our last school-party)...Jim calls to tell me its going to be very windy and rainy on Sunday. It is our turn to host the annual BBQ for his mom and siblings and their families. Suddenly I jolt to the moment and remind myself to focus on Today...don't soak in the Past, don't worry about tomorrow 'for sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof' but pay attention to Now...
We are in the process of making a once-in-a-lifetime memory. Let's make it special! Happy June 26th.
Here summer vacation has officially begun. Victoria and her friends, (the Gr. 8 girls) are ending a chapter in their lives while beginning another, with a camp-out. The back yard is a plethora of shrieks and laughter like only a whole lot of 13-14 year old girls are capable of...great memories in the making!
I had fun preparing brunch which originally was going to be served mid-morning (and I guess 9:00 is mid-morning for girls who stayed up most of the night and were 'STARVING!!';-)
There is only one alternative to getting older, the minister reminded us at my aunt's funeral yesterday...we should consider Time's gift a priceless allowance!
If Death should come calling today
In form of The Sublime
to grant one wish
I'm sure we would say
'oh, for a little more Time'
Some verses from God's Word on Time or Life...
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go
to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business
and make a profit." Yet
you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a
vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that."…James 4:13-15
Job 7:7
Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; Psalm 39:5
You
have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as
nothing before you. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem
secure. Psalm 78:39
He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return. Psalm 102:3
For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. Psalm 144:4
They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow. Proverbs 27:1
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. Isaiah 2:22
Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?