Have you ever thought about this? In 100 years (like in 2123) we will all be buried with our relatives and friends. Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything …More
Have you ever thought about this?
In 100 years (like in 2123) we will all be buried with our relatives and friends.
Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, preferably in the hands of an unknown collector.
Our descendants will hardly or hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather's father?
After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone's bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history's oblivion. We won't even be memories.
If we paused one day to analyze these questions, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all was.
If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people.
Always having …More
In 100 years (like in 2123) we will all be buried with our relatives and friends.
Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, preferably in the hands of an unknown collector.
Our descendants will hardly or hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather's father?
After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone's bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history's oblivion. We won't even be memories.
If we paused one day to analyze these questions, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all was.
If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people.
Always having …More
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St. Alphonsus Liguori "Preparation for Death" in PDF format: saintsbooks.net/…onsus Maria de Liguori - Preparation for Death.pdf
"To dust you shall return" but "I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky"
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True. SO true. Sometimes it's good to have one's self humbled by the mere fact that we're human and WILL return to dust. Often in our everyday lives we often forget that fact, and it's only when we're faced with life-threatening situations that we "get our act together" and realize our TOTAL dependence on God - who created us and willed us into existence. God is so good. 