Our weekend was interesting. We spent two days at one of our churches conventions. Between meetings we talked to lots of old friends and made a few new ones, too. A lot of people seem to be struggling financially right now. One of the recurrent themes of discussion was that times like these help us reset our priorities. Then, when we returned home on Sunday evening, we heard that the brother-in-law of one of Lorena’s girlhood friends had been killed in a car accident. He was the father of three children. We really did not know him at all, but it made us think about our priorities even more.
In addition to all that, we were reminded of the shortness of life in a number of ways when we went to Oregon. There were many, many people on whom we depended for so many years who are now old and struggle even getting around. One of our dear friends had lost his wife and appeared lost himself. Then on our return to North Carolina, we were reminded again of how quickly time passes when neither of a faithful old couple in our Sunday morning meeting were unable to get to our convention for the first time because of poor health.
It was just a very good reminder to me that there are some things that are very important and some things that are not. We might have many years left, but we might have only a few hours. Either way, it is good for me to be reminded that my time is finite and I better spend what time I have available on stuff that matters.