Fatal Disease

As when medical men examine an illness, and ascertain that it is fatal, they make this pronouncement, "He will die, he will not get over this," ...

Heedless Knowledge

Man always knows his life will shortly cease,

Yet madly lives as if he knew it not.

Coming or Going?

A little boy was sitting in a Sunday school class, listening to his teacher describe how in the beginning of creation, God made mankind from the dust ...

Live Each Day as Your Last

The greatest thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might ...

Inevitability of Aging

As you know, birthdays make one thoughtful. If one is prepared to be honest, any birthday means one has aged. That makes me realize that whenever we speak ...

Child's Perspective on Death

My 4-year-old granddaughter and I were talking one day about death. Her grandfather has cancer and I wanted to prepare her for the inevitable. She didn't ...

Later Never Comes

For weeks after my last operation [for cancer] -- frail and without energy, sleeping 10 hours--I looked in my house at all the books I had not read and ...

Centuries and Hours

The supreme lesson of life is to learn what the centuries say against the hours.

The Time of Our Lives

Time is life--nothing more, nothing less. The way you spend your hours and your days is the way you spend your life.

No Infinity in This Life

At 65 one is not merely 20 years older than one was at 45. One has exchanged an infinite future--and one had a tendency to look upon it as infinite--for ...