Today for our Ecology lab we had to go to a cemetery to record birth and death years for human life tables. Blah, blah, blah, science you probably don't care about. But anyway, just the thoughts that being in a graveyard can bring up are amazing to me. Death knows no bounds. We recorded a woman that died 100 years old, while we also recorded a baby that did not even live one day. Life is so precious and we sometimes take our existence for granted. We don't know when that last date will be recorded for our own lives, so we need to take what God has given us and make the most of it in the present. We shouldn't wait to do great things until tomorrow because we're not promised tomorrow. There was also an eerie feeling being that close to human remains, but the thing is, they're not there anymore. They're in eternity, in Heaven or Hell, and they know the vital importance of what it means to make the most of what God has given us. Each person was given exactly the amount of time that God intended and it's up to us to do with it what He intends. It was a sort of reality check for me and I'm glad that even in the midst of death, God shows us the way to everlasting life.
"He rescues them from the grave so they may enjoy the light of life." Job 33:30
