Soul Snack S9/9 ... A Bored Board?
"For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing... their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished..." Eccl. 9:5-6a
Mirrored in the azure rolling water, his eyes returned his reflected stare. The fibreglass board rocking with little discernible progress. As he stared at his eyes, the window to his soul was opened. This present stillness quickly becoming a serendipitous investment.
Intently he gazed. He saw the shocking and the surprising. He saw his slowness and his sin. He engaged in extended and sad reflections over his sin.
He saw his activities and his jealousies, his adventures and his joys. He saw that which was meaningless, and his actions of value.
He assessed his hollowness and enjoyed his happiness. He learned about the changes and chances of the life he had already lived. (He was still time rich for he was just middle aged). He now saw how transitory his life is. What had been so important was now so hollow in eternity.
His watery eyes continued to return the stare, knees now encrusted in saline, wisely he considered that getting 'forever' correct only mattered. The estate that is his soul now remarkably increasing in value.
George Best (the British soccer great) said, 'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars, the rest I squandered away.'
Only the spiritually still and alert can determine the meaningless from the meaningful.