{"id":901,"date":"2014-12-29T00:08:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T16:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=901"},"modified":"2014-12-29T00:08:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T16:08:24","slug":"eternity-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/eternity-in-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Eternity in Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately i&#8217;ve been thinking and reflecting about life.<\/p>\n<p>This year going to an end. I&#8217;ve a colleague suffered a serious cancer. Family members of my cell group had serious health issues. And i do know that my life here on earth is also temporary. I inherited from my parents some health issue, and i should take care my health.<\/p>\n<p>After all said and done, what do i leave behind? I spent so much time working, looking for money to feed the family..sometimes at the expense of health&#8230;and later when health issue comes&#8230;it will be the family that suffer. Again, what&#8217;s life?<\/p>\n<p>I learnt that life is precious and fragile at the same time. As we spent so much time of our life (which will never come back, as the year will go and not coming back)&#8230;make sure the things that last built and done properly. So many things which take so much time, are really the non-essential. Yet we&#8217;re suck up and spent so much time in them.<\/p>\n<p>While, things that are eternal, we hardly spend our times in them. May the Lord gives us heart of wisdom. Let&#8217;s redeem the time&#8230;so our times spent for things that are eternal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately i&#8217;ve been thinking and reflecting about life. This year going to an end. I&#8217;ve a colleague suffered a serious cancer. Family members of my cell group had serious health issues. And i do know that my life here on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/eternity-in-perspective\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,52],"tags":[156,311,328],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephesians","category-psalm","tag-eternity","tag-time","tag-wisdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":516,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/in-the-light-of-eternity-part-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":901,"position":0},"title":"In the light of eternity (part 1)","author":"clay","date":"June 20, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Came for morning session of Go4th Mission on Sat. 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