"My Days Are Like a Shadow That Lengthens"

James 1:10-11,14 "...because as a flower of the field he will pass away. For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. So the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits....whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away."

Ecclesiastes 6:12 "For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he passes like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun?"

Psalm 103:14-16 "For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

Isaiah 40:6b-7 "All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely the people are grass."

Enduring Things

by Mary E. Linton

And what, then
    is the all-important goal
To which we drive ourselves
    and have no time
To listen to the singing of the soul,
Or rise on spirit's wings,
    to thoughts sublime?
One day the world will grind
    much as before
Without our grim direction,
   and the wheels
Will somehow turn
   when we have passed the door
That leads beyond four walls
   and three square meals.
And what then will we have to take along
Where there and neither pockets
   vaults nor shelves,
When all that we can hold
   will be our song
And what we worked to build
   into ourselves?
Oh, listen to the universe that sings
Through hearts attuned
to Life's enduring things.

"For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, preacious stones, wood hay straw, each one's work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is. If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will recieve a reward. If anyone's work is burned he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire." 1 Corinthians 3:11-15

"Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bagswhich wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no theif approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." - Luke 12:33-34

Seeking His kingdom's glory,
Ashlin