What is the meaning
of your life lived story
what is the meaning of life?
I do not judge your personal life story
life struggle by the page I intersected
with your life upon, nor by past rumours
accounts of your life from earlier chapters
within your life story. I judge not your life
story by the chapter I met you embroiled
within, nor by likely outcomes you will
must endure. Life is our great novel we write
daily, due to our heritage culture language
traditions education and most importantly
life decisions, we make constantly small
and large. Many lives climate wax wane
multiple times during the chapters course
of life journeys, thus we may discern lives
are often valued judged by the accumulation
of all acts experience endured committed
over the course of a lifetime, more rarely
by final days the actions of dying moments,
but the ultimate weighing measure meaning
of touchstone life stories often could only
be discerned defined on a divine set of scales;
yet record love compassion wisdom respect
we sow into other lives will always be a good
yardstick. A tape measure of our lives is often
measured in the love respect of friends families
not in fame halls of specific past achievements
or national memories. This life is our life story
take up your pen or tablet and write it well
with abundant love wisdom respect forgiveness
my friends, let ripples of compassion love radiate
out from all your works write an endearing ardent
life story. What is the meaning of your life
story, what will be is the meaning of life?
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
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