What is really- REAL?
PROLOGUE:
IN THE END, we LOOK BACK & search for MEANING, as time slips through our fingers like water. What, if anything, cannot be lost or taken from us? What is NOT perishable? Certainly not youth, not money, and not accumulated things. All that- either fades, is passed on, or thrown away. Not fame- for that too, is no longer remembered after several lifetimes. Just ask the youth of today if they even know all the great men of old. What then, is really- REAL?
QUERY:
We are Finite Beings with a very short Shelf-Life. We are also very Unique Beings, for we have been given Free-Will by a Higher Power (the Most-High). That gift alone- allows us to FIND MEANING within this TRANSIENT life. Which begs the question: Within the precious limited time we have been given, what does mankind ultimately hold dear? When man is faced with his inevitable demise and breathing his last hundred breaths, what cannot be taken from him?Can anything man has experienced, in this Temporary Residence on Earth- survive his death?
REFLECTIONS:
1 Cor 13:1-8: “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but do not have love, I have become a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and understand all the sacred secrets and all knowledge, and if I have the faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my belongings to feed others and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I do not benefit at all……Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things…LOVE NEVER FAILS!”
“LOVE is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.” -Thomas Merton
“The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is- I think it's LOVE.” -Julie Benz
“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others SEE; it is what gives life its DEEPEST significance.” -Roy T. Bennett
“It does not matter HOW LONG you are spending on the earth, HOW MUCH MONEY you have gathered or HOW MUCH ATTENTION you have received. It is the amount of POSITIVE vibration you have radiated in life that matters.” -Amit Ray
“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can FEEL IT!” ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
P.S.
“When it’s all said & done-
All of us ARE ONE.
Our senses masquerade-
The illusory Body fades.
Money & Fame- So fleeting.
Achievements- No meaning
The Progress of the Soul,
Depends- if Love Rules!”
-Ethoas
B.P.S. I propose that the answer to the above Query: Is LOVE! … From the Lookout Post.