A Long Blog Because I Had Time To Write It

I’ve become an old man right before my eyes.  It all happened so quick; the last thing I remember I was 26 or so and building a life and the next thing I know I’m 60 looking back at most of it.  I believe the building part was what did me in, I was so focused on building that I failed to notice the time I was using up.  I know, 60 years is a lot of time not to notice but that’s the way it seems.  I have few regrets but those I do are truly regrettable; none more than not taking care of my body, my whole body, spiritually, physically and because of those mentally and emotionally.  Our bodies are marvels unrivaled by all other things we know including the cosmos, which seems irrelevant except that as humans, our presence in it, makes it so.  There is nothing that is, that is not made up by humans being present to make it real, (the adage “if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound” underscores my point.)  Oh, what a marvel God came up with, humans.  On a side note that will lengthen this blog to unreadable by most, I would say this as well.  In our finite being we are much like a kindergartener playing in the sandbox and upon finding a colorful letter “A” refrigerator magnet buried there we march into the Superintendent’s office and declare we have evolved from refrigerators.    

Life is grand, the being of being giving everything else meaning except the tendency for the pot telling the potter he doesn’t exist.  Of that, we must guard against with all our being.  Time has passed by so quickly and has had its way on me; I am now old.  I taught yesterday on James admonition that humans are like the “morning fog”, a mist soon gone.  I don’t number my days so short as to call their end “soon” but soon, as time goes, is relevant.  The point being, as I climb out of this rabbit hole I probably took only me down, is that I wish I had taken better care of my body, in the sense of buying a Lamborghini and never washing it and leaving all my Taco Bell wrappers crumpled in its floorboard. 

I would be leading myself and any reader still reading, astray if I did not clarify this whole blog with a single thought of mine, thought first by Solomon, who is wiser than me and obviously a better writer since he has been published, had first and wrote it down, I will just quote him; “That’s the whole story.  Here now is my final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commands, for this is everyone’s duty.  God will judge us for everything we do including every secret thing, whether good or bad.”

When time seemed really slow.