The scripture for today, May 15 (5/15), is Ecclesiastes 5:15 as found in the Old Testament of the Bible:
“Naked a man comes from his mother’s womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from his labor that he can carry in his hand.”
As most people enter their senior years, they finally understand this verse. In their youth, they struggled to get jobs and status and things. Some accomplished it and some didn’t. But in the senior years….
when health is gradually declining….
the world is passing them by….
and they are sitting in their chair most of the time….
….the main thing people look back on is what difference they made in their world, and how they did or did not help people important to them.
Often in their senior years when their income goes down and they are living only on a small pension, and they are unable to keep their big house, and fancy car, and impressive stuff, they realize they are still the same person inside regardless of what they own.
Ask a senior what they want for a birthday present. It is not likely to be things. It is likely to be time spent with a loved one. Time: So precious.
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“To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.”
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God.”
“In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.”
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”
“But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
“…your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.”
“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
“And who knows but that you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
“Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the Lord?”