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Don't Forget!
Ecclesiastes 12:1-8
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Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble
come and the years approach when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them"--
before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the
clouds return after the rain; when the keepers of the house tremble, and the
strong men stoop, when the grinders cease because they are few, and those
looking through the windows grow dim; when the doors to the street are closed
and the sound of grinding fades; when men rise up at the sound of birds, but
all their songs grow faint; when men are afraid of heights and of dangers in
the streets; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags himself
along and desire no longer is stirred. Then man goes to his eternal home and
mourners go about the streets. Remember him--before the silver cord is
severed, or the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the
spring, or the wheel broken at the well, and the dust returns to the ground
it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. "
Remember Him!
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