Numbering Our Days

The psalmist asked the Lord, Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Since turning 50 in November, this passage is taking on a new, fuller meaning for me. Without an understanding and an appreciation for my mortality and the briefness of my life, I cannot understand anything.

This, of course, goes hand-in-hand with the fear of the Lord being the beginning of wisdom. The only thing that speaks comfort to me, in my (human) condition, is my certain hope of an all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful, all-loving God who transcends his creations and the brief lives of his created beings.