It's the life in your years

Reading the quote stirred my thoughts. My Great, Great, Great Uncle was credited to have penned the stated words…

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

When Abraham Lincoln said this he would have little idea of how powerful that statement was for himself. As we know his life was cut short because of the political furor around him. One bullet stopped him short.

It seems ironic that even with his life stopped early, he has powerfully impacted a world that would follow his every word that had been spoken or written over the short few years.

When I have read and re-read his history and life I see that he didn’t live an easy life at all. It was filled with complicated and broken pieces. But even with the broken pieces and the many different tragedies that his family suffered he had much “life in his years”.

My life is running slower today than it did 25 years ago. I was thinking deeply of those wonderful times we had enjoyed so much – just the other day. Now today with a radical change in life style and with a new slowness creeping around us…. we couldn’t live that same life over again.

But the fact is the years we have had are filled with a wonderful life. My wife and I rehearsed this the other day again as we had breakfast together. We giggled our way through it all.

Today I am deeply appreciative of what I have and what has happened. Tomorrow will be good – no matter what happens – because yesterday was so full of wonderful years.

Wow!

~ Pastor Murray Lincoln ~