Fellow Labourers-
Note the subject and consider what headline would they write at our passing. Please do not think I am being morbid; I am responding to today's article. What if they announced your death when in fact it was not you who died. What do you think would be screaming across the front page of our two daily newspapers? Or do you believe you would have made the front page?
I don't know how familiar we are with the Latin Phrase 'Carpe Diem' but here is the story behind it. In Horace, the phrase is part of the longer Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero – "seize the day and place no trust in tomorrow", and the ode says that the future is unknowable, and that instead one should scale back one's hopes to a brief future, and drink one's wine. Compare with the Biblical "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die", with emphasis on making the most of current opportunities because life is short and time is fleeting – an existential caution.Yes,We must endeavour to seize the moment.
Pax Vobiscum
Robert Stewart
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I have often thought about what people say when I am dead. Usually I tell people that I want them to remember me with joy. There are some folks for whom we rejoice when they are dead-good riddance, for others there is deep regret. We should all live lives that make a positive impact, and those who are important to us should regret our passing and not remember us with indifference. Let us all love expressively our families. (Use the five love languages-tell them, do things for them, touch them, etc.). Spend quality time with them, careers and jobs with end but families are important and 'only what we do for Christ will last'. What is the difference? Family and Christ's work? Some folks get caught up in church work and still forget their families. Others - it is only about their family. We should strike a balance.
ReplyDeleteBlessings.
NJF