I hate to mow the lawn. It's something I really wish Greg was here to do. So often our yard is like the pimple on the beautiful green face of our neighborhood. My neighbors all seem to have a knack for making their yards golf course smooth and invitingly beflowered.
So yesterday I was mowing the front yard (at least get the public side looking nice) and I was pondering the circumstances of various people in my circle of life that are having a hard time financially. (despite my hatred of mowing, it does give me great thinking time!) In one case I wondered, "What if they lose it all?" I pondered what that would be like as my mower chewed away and then it hit me---of course they will lose it all! Everyone will! There is not one person who will get to take their boat, their car, their house, DVD collection or even their Pez dispenser with them. Everyone will die, everyone will lose everything they collected and cared for in life. They will lose thier children, their position, their honor.
Far from being depression, there was a great liberation in this thought. So much of life involves tending these things that are like my lawn--it will not last! No matter what I do to make my lawn lush and green, someday it will be snowcovered and dormant. And no matter what things in life I think are important--like a car, house, job, position or freedom, the only things I take with me is my character, my relationships and especially, my relationship with Jesus!
So I can relax and focus my energies more on those things that build a real future.
As I waddled behind ol' bessie I thought, how true--all flesh is truly like grass!
1Pe 1:24 ¶ because "All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flower falls away,
1Pe 1:25 But the word of the LORD endures forever." Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.
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