“Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.”
— St. Clare of Assisi
What legacy will we leave? What will be the result of all that we have done in our life?
In our youth we never ask that question. In our advancing years we may sometimes wonder if we should have.
Our labor is brief. What price we paid, what we endured, what we focused on, all are brief in the scope of eternity. It is a fleeting shadow, a false delight.
But the fruit of that labor is eternal. Good fruit. Bad fruit. No fruit. It is eternal.
How sad to come to the end of life and realize that it was all chasing vanities.
Who cares what is in your wallet. The bigger question is what is in your eternity?
