Our souls however are not so. They live on. We ought to resolve, this year, to feed, shape, clean, and purify them. For the Christian, the winter of death awakens to the glorious realities of endless sunny days. The soul goes to be with Christ.
Life is a great blessing.
But our lives are more than this life. Our lives are a preparation for eternal life. All the stocks we can own, money market balances we can rack up, or second houses we can acquire on the water, do nothing but ease life here - the place we are leaving. The wise soul uses life here not to build up treasure, but as a perparative to eternal life. May God grant us grace that we may be found to be wise.