Life is a short run. You get older. Years slip away. Rogaine or Grecian Formula. And you sit up late nights hoping your kids aren't out doing the kind of things you were doing in high school and college.
Human life is fragile and brief.
That is part of what we should be contemplating this week. But there is something else to be said. That is that we are called by God. We are called into relationship with God, into covenant with God. Our finitude and our fallibility and our limitations are only part of the story.