You may be reading this by candlelight, but it's obvious that life is going to go on as normal. Even so, the Y2K scare may have caused you to do some serious thinking about what lies ahead. And just entering the year 2000 may be causing you to look at what you really value most in life.
Some experiences have a way of rearranging one's priorities.
That was true in the lives of former Texas Governor John Connally and his wife after he was wounded by the assassin who took the life of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. We try not to participate in things that are shallow or in the long run meaningless. God alone can deliver us from a life of meaningless activities. Let's not wait for a close scrape with death to convince us of the paramount importance of making the most out of life. It's not how long you live that counts, but how you live.