FROM TODAY'S READING...
“We will lie down for such a long time after death that it is worthwhile to keep standing while we are alive. Let us work now; one day we shall rest.”
Agostina Pietrantoni (1864-1894)
Nurse at Santo Spirito hospital in Rome
NOTE: Her quote to others one day prior to her murder.
Psalms 39:4-5 (NLT) Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered— how fleeting my life is. You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath.
Psalms 90:12 (NLT) Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.
Psalms 103:15-16 (NLT) Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die. The wind blows, and we are gone— as though we had never been here.
Psalms 144:3-4 (NLT) O Lord, what are human beings that you should notice them, mere mortals that you should think about them? For they are like a breath of air; their days are like a passing shadow.
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