Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The flowers of the field

Life has been familiar, comfortable and commonplace in a thoroughly satisfying way, with none of the edginess, disquiet and desperate pursuits that characterize so much of our time. This must be what a happy retirement is like, where time and freedom are synonymous with each other and life is a handpicked assortment of people, places and events, filled with enough decadence and laughter to put the past into perspective and enough convenient surprises and fulfilled expectations to make so much of the future worth looking forward to.

All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever.

- 1 Peter 1:24

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