• Our Lives Are Like Leaves

  • Dec 29 2024
  • Length: 1 min
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Our Lives Are Like Leaves

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    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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