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
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.’
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?"
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.
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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A few message-excerpts from the book by Catherine Marshall...
A Man Called Peter
(...continued from above photo)
