All is vanity

"Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, before the difficult days come, and the years draw near when you say, "I have no pleasure in them." (Ecclesiastes 12:1).

Getting older is something everyone faces, and is certainly much better than the alternative that we have in this world. There is an expression that goes "youth is wasted on the young", and that is a mighty powerful way to put it. Of the many things I still have yet to learn is taking each day as it comes, and not getting wrapped up in little things. We are creatures that need vision to grow, without it we start to wither. When you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there, as the saying goes. We only have one life on this earth, and God doesn't want us to spend it feeling lost.

"Walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these God will bring you into judgement. Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh. For childhood and youth are vanity." (Ecclesiastes 11:9-10)