Apr 18, 2006

On Sharlet’s blog, she relayed a question that was asked of her by a friend:

“If we all have to leave this world someday, then life is meaningless right?”

That’s the crux of everything, isn’t it?

As you can probably guess, I fall into the “life is short, therefore it is meaningful” camp.

Every day that I get to wake up and kiss my wife, hug my daughter and smile at a friend is one more day that is worth living. To say otherwise is like saying that because a movie ends, that it isn’t worth watching, or that a book isn’t worth reading because it has a last chapter, or that because you eventually finish the ice cream cone, it just isn’t worth eating.

No, I must disagree. Ice cream is always worth eating.
And life is always worth living. It must also then be meaningful, as only things of consequence, things of value, things of worth are meaningful.

When something desirable is scarce, it becomes MORE valuable, not less.

And, I haven’t even touched on the more spiritual aspect of God’s eternal purpose for us…

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