While visiting my childhood home I came across two awards I received in my teenage years. The first was a book awarded to me for coming first in Fourth Form (Year Ten) prose. I have no recollection whatsoever of receiving this prize.
The second prize was given to me when I was 18. I was voted by a majority on the athletics team at school to have been the team member who consistently gave 100 percent effort. I do remember receiving this award, but I am now routinely beaten by my children in running races.
The glory of man fades so quickly…
You return man to dust
and say, “Return, O children of man!”[b]
4 For a thousand years in your sight
are but as yesterday when it is past,
or as a watch in the night.
5 You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning:
6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.
But the glory of God is eternal.
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self[a] is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4
Only one life,
it will soon be past.
Only what’s done for Jesus,
Only that will last.
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