We drove past walls of dirt embankments that had been shaved smooth and  tall when bulldozers cut through the loam hills as they were building the Interstate Highways through the countryside.  Someone with a good sense of proportion and lettering had neatly carved his name in the wall of dirt two feet high and about twenty feet long.  Thousands of people passing by would read that name for a period of time.  But the rains and wind would eventually wear away the name that someone had so laboriously carved.  There was nothing lasting about the work and probably no permanence intended.

The Bible says, "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth...surely the people is grass." (Isa. 40:7  It suggests that there is a  Springtime,  Summer and Fall in our lives...perhaps even Winter.  Seasons of  our lives are brief...we bloom, we endure, and we fade away.  An oft repeated saying of a favorite Sunday School teacher of mine was, "Only one life, 'twill soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last."  I Peter 1:4, 5 speaks of "...an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."

                                                                                                                         JWB