A Quote for the Day

The most essential things in life comes without color. Imagine what water or air be in black or blue or even pink. Color in nature is a byproduct of natural processes. In the world of humans, it is added to break the monotony of a meaningless existence. Color tries to add life into the lifelessness of a rather unreflected life.

There is nothing we can do about how long we live. But we can do so much on how much meaning our life will have--meanings that can spill into eternity.

The most beautiful thing about getting old is the privilege of finding more meaning in life; meaning that the young will most likely miss. But of course a person may also find old age bereft of meaning. That happens when life had been lived without looking for meaning in the first place.

With all our minds consumed in the demands of daily life and responsibilities with our family and the communities we serve, we can easily forget that all these things achieve meaning only in Christ Jesus. All of these mean nothing withouth Christ. All of these people and things, including ourselves, are mere passing creations on  earth who in time will return to dust where we came from. Only God makes this life meaningful and worth living amidst its triumphs and defeats.

Many people live like they will live forever. Many people die like they have not lived at all.

People only see what their eyes can see, and  understand things from what they guess things mean. Only God knows what is in the heart of man.

Time is the ultimate witness of mortality. When man is young, time means no more than a counting tool for accomplishments, or the lack thereof, often in the context that life will continue to be so in an infinite future. But man has to deal with time eventually. In his deathbed, time will ask a foolish man: "Now that your time has run out, what meaning have you found in it?"