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What do you do in a month? Do some work? Sleep? Entertainment? Worry about money. And then, not too soon, the month ends and there is another to start. They seem to go by so fast. Days can seem to take forever, yet months go by so fast.

Yet you don’t have a lot of them. If you live 70 years that is 840 months. Seventy years seem long, yet when you get there you wonder how it went by so fast. But that is about how many you have, 840 months that pass by so fast.

What did you do with them? Let us say 20 years of growing up to be a self absorbed person resisting control and wanting to show you can get what you want (20X12 = 240 months, leaving 600). Then maybe another 25 getting married and raising children, you are not sure why but everyone does it, stressing yourself looking forward to retirement (25X12 = 300 months, +240 so that is 540 of your 840 months. Then you get to have a life crisis and wonder what you have been doing, going back to try all the things you missed, or struggling to hold on to what you have for say 5 years (60 months + 540 = 600, leaving 240.) Then you get to keep building your empire that you will have to let go of at death, dreaming you will pass it on when actually others will take it for their own ends. Or build your empire for entertainment value. Or you can go and think about what you learned in life, and then lose those thoughts. Or you could never grow up, and skinny dip in public at the age of 70. Maybe do all those things you always wanted to (a great idea to get them out of you). And that, along with eating sleeping etc. Is the rest of your life.

Now I know that not everyone’s life goes like this, but we all have our variation of this. You can spend your life rebelling from the norm, and then there you are with your set of dreams and such.

So is that what your 840 months are about? I was once asked if that was all there is to life. I have found there is a much more deep spiritual side to life also. One that is quite normal, in fact it is our birthright so the idea someone is anything but normal by being spiritual is ridiculous, though that could be another self absorption  one can get into. I am highly spiritual, but I also work, clean the clothes, go to the bathroom, all the things everyone else does. But I don’t have a lot of personal attachment to what I am doing here, except maybe playing my guitar. Still, while I am doing all these things, I am also at the same time developing spiritually.

So, that is what I have to say about this. Your life may seem a long time, yet it is not. You could spend it on proving you have grown up, thus showing you have not. You could spend it on building self worth in this earth that will pass away as all things do here. You do want to care for your being, and assist all those you have the capacity to, but then your time will end.

I would suggest some time for prayer, and meditation. You are told to rage against the long dark, but that assumes that is what is coming. And you are going to spend all eternity in that other realm. You only get 840 months here. It is best to make contact with the eternal before your clock stops.

Like the Replicants in the movie Blade Runner, we are all born for a short time, gather astonishing sights and understandings, and then these all pass like tears in a rain storm.

Step into eternity. Pray to God. It is your only hope.