Good Friday Reflections: Segments from my journal

segments from my journal on Good Friday.. reflecting on Dave...



What is the point of a life?..What determines its worth?....Is it duration of time? Accomplishments? Relationships? Reknown? Accumulation?


Really, now, what is it?..........

 I do know that Jesus accomplished everything he needed to accomplish by the age of 33. No sooner. No later. Into that small window God condensed eternity. On the cross and in the empty tomb, we saw the spiritual equivalent of the splitting of the atom. Think of the metaphor. At one level the "smallest" of events yielded a world transforming result.


So, Davey, How am I to evaluate the "point" of your life? By point, I mean purpose, value, significance, meaning....... . . . . . . .... What can I know? Well, your "point" cannot be known from my level any more than the 'point' of a particular piece of a jigsaw puzzle can be evaluated without seeing the bigger picture into which it fits. I do know that your life is part of something so much bigger......


I can guess, Dave, because I see the glimmers. I won't find it in the numbers who knew you or who mourn your passing. It's not in the breadth. It's in the depth. And who can judge that?


As for me, I see you everywhere. Thank you for embracing Life. You left this world as a leader, as an example that I will not tire of communicating to a world that so desperately needs examples.