No one knows how long they will live.
The invincibility of youth is only pierced by the occasional reminders of mortality when the peers are cut off in their prime. Other than that it is a time for planning and achieving and being everything great without a hint that will ever end.
But it will end.
This morning my Dad called me and wished me a happy birthday. My Dad lives in Jamaica and isn’t rolling in cash, so for him to make the call was something special in itself and to hear him speak with such strength and wisdom was humbling for me. He proves that God might extend your years on this earth.
It is no guarantee.
Although life expectancy in this country in this area might be of a certain age, I still enjoy the biblical reference to a man’s time-span being threescore years and ten. In that case I’ve reached the half-way.
And from this perspective it is really fascinating considering the journey and progress made to this point. God’s faithfulness has been abundantly obvious through the years. From the toddler years, through the adolescence and then the university years into marriage and children it has been evident that God has sustained and revealed Himself to me and myself to me as well!
It has been a good life so far, marked with interactions with some great people in that time. What has made it good is as much about the bad as it has been about the pleasurable. It is as much of the heartache and pain as the joy and laughter. In all that Jesus Christ has been real to me and continues to be a source of great inspiration and motivation.
It is a privilege to have made it to the half-way point (even if I don’t make it through the second half). It is only by His grace that I’ve made it. It will only be by His grace that I’ll make it even another day longer.
Thanks to God, then for today and all it brings and the memories for the days that have made today so enriching and so memorable.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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