Some people die in the prime of life,
with everything going for them—
fat and sassy.
Others die bitter and bereft,
never getting a taste of happiness.
They’re laid out side by side in the cemetery,
where the worms can’t tell one from the other.
I've thought about this concept often, when people are taken too early.....not unlike your dad. Or some teenager that gets taken out by a drunk driver. And they never get the chance to live out their life to its potential.
Or to take it a step further, sometimes I look at people with physical abnormalities, or mental defficencies, and think how cheated they must feel. We all have a chance to prove our worth, while we are here on this earth. Some of us are given much (like you said yesterday), and some are given very little. But, we are all expected to use what we are given for God's glory. I don't sit back and take inventory of what God has allowed in me oftern enough. Good health, good family, sound mind and body (you could argue that one), positive outlook, enough money to survivie without much thought, and lots of extras in life.
But, in the end. I'll be lying in the cemetary next to the person who wasn't afforded any of those things.
hhhmmmmmm..........food for thought.
Its impossible to get your head around why one person has so much and another has so little, why one person lives a long life filled with evil and others are cut short. I still remember sitting in the Mayo Clinic watching TV with my dad and seeing a news report about people doing some terrible things and I said to him seems unfair that they go on living and people like you are facing cancer. He said I never asked why, I just played the cards that have been dealt to me.
ReplyDeleteTo this point in my life I feel like I've been dealt a royal flush, which Job was too early on so things can change. I hope I can be faithful to God no matter what the cards in my hand look like. You are right, Moses, Job, Hitler, a homeless person, JFK, my dad had lives on earth that took dramatically different paths but all lead to their bodies being in the same place...in the ground. What really matters is their heart, our heart, not the circumstance here on earth.
knut