13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
"What is your life?"
Now there's a question for us to ponder on the eve of the turning of another year. What are our lives about? Where do our days go? On what do we spend our minutes? On whom?
And what if we had fewer minutes to spend than we might count on?
Here is a secret worth knowing: we do have fewer minutes to spend than we are counting on.
Lines from Mary Oliver's poem "A Summer Day" make the point and ask the essential question: "Doesn't very thing die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life."
The calendar says this year is fast winding down. A new year will soon be here. The calendar says we will soon have a new year.
But wisdom tells us we still have today. Wisdom says we only have today -- this day; now.
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