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Our Lives Are Like Leaves
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Horace McMillon에서 제공하는 콘텐츠입니다. 에피소드, 그래픽, 팟캐스트 설명을 포함한 모든 팟캐스트 콘텐츠는 Horace McMillon 또는 해당 팟캐스트 플랫폼 파트너가 직접 업로드하고 제공합니다. 누군가가 귀하의 허락 없이 귀하의 저작물을 사용하고 있다고 생각되는 경우 여기에 설명된 절차를 따르실 수 있습니다 https://ko.player.fm/legal.
Our Years Are Like the Leaves
“The years
Fall like dry leaves
From the top-less tree
Of eternity.
Does it matter
That another leaf has fallen?”
-New Year by Langston Hughes
How many Pharaohs of Egypt can you name? How many emperors of Rome or ancient China? Most reading or listening to this in the US would be hard pressed to name all the presidents much less name any of their accomplishments.
That’s all to say that most of the things on which we spend our time, that we stress and sweat over, are as the writer of Ecclesiastes declares, are vanity, meaningless chasing after the wind.
Leaves dry up and blow away. But while they are alive they collect the sunshine and feed the trees. They provide shade and shelter for the forest animals and oxygen for us all. Their breathtaking beauty amazes and inspires.
To Hughes’s question, do they matter? Yes they do. Our lives are like the leaves. They matter. We matter.
I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.
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