While I was writing the last post (Moonwalk II), I began a poem. It was initially inspired by a picture I took of a grave marker in Canada that was over 100 years old.Eternity
By David Alan Hoag – August 5th, 2009
Time in its infinite span
Offers us just the merest breath.
So fleetingly we live our lives
Before we taste of death.
Monuments of marbled stone
With your last remains you entrust,
But in a few short million years
Your tomb is only dust.
In the dust of creation,
Are we just some capricious clod?
We know that we don’t measure up,
Yet we are sought by God.
Adam communed in Eden
With our God, long before the fall
But don’t blame Eve; it’s all of us…
We heed temptation’s call.
Jesus, son of the Father
His life, for all of us, he gave
In overcoming sin and death
Left just an empty grave.
Instead of raising gravestones;
In the place of struggle and strife
Decide to walk a better path…
Choose Jesus, and choose life.
I can do no better than to echo the last line of the poem in closing: Choose Jesus, and choose life!
Your brother in Christ,
Dave
Your brother in Christ,
Dave
A timeless thought, Dave (yes, I know, but living with Diehl for 36+ years...)
ReplyDelete"We know that we don’t measure up,
Yet we are sought by God...
Choose Jesus, and choose life."
Isn't it wonderful... we get to choose! Free will! What a great gift, a great welcome to the family, a great love He wants to bestow upon us!!!
But we have to want it.
I love to listen to and sing "Brahms' Requiem." Like the "Messiah" the text is various Bible verses, with several different sections... like how we are as the grass (very short life), how lovely is the dwelling place of the Lord, and be patient, and blessed are those who rest in the Lord.
I have often photographed in cemeteries; one of my pieces is called "Waiting" where the man died and the double gravestone has everything but the date of the wife's death, and a woman partly hidden by a tree right behind/beside the stone. Our time here binds us; we are tightly bound by 'time' but the Lord is not. How can I understand eternity? Our time here is short; make best use of it, fly to Jesus and LIVE! Now. And for eternity!!! If we choose it here.