Live in light of eternity

Lynda Sittser concluded a letter to friends with a line that reflected her philosophy on life. She said, ‘I am trying to live my whole life in the light of eternity.’ Days latter a drunk driver crashed into their family car and Lynda died. Are we living our whole life in light of eternity? Her husband later wrote,

‘An eternal perspective will affect how we make choices. It stresses the important over the urgent, need over want, service over pleasure, people over things. A seminary professor told me just as I was beginning my first pastoral charge, “People and the Word of God are eternal. Most everything else in temporal. Make sure you invest in the eternal.”'