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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1989-04-05, Page 20PAGE 20. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1989. The Minister's Study Only what's done for Christ will last BY DOUGLAS J. ZEHR, CO-PASTOR, BRUSSELS MENNONITE FELLOWSHIP Another Easter celebration has come and gone. One could wonder if it will make any difference in our world. What are you going to be 10 years from now? What personal dreams for the future are you holding on to? History bears out the truth that we will be 10 years from now what we are in the process of becoming today. There is really no big secret. People just don’t one day wake up bitter or sweet in disposition, nasty or kind in character. It is a life long process. Unless there is some drastic, revolutionary change, you will be 10 years from now what you are in the process of becoming right now. So the question is valid - what are you going to do with your life? Just recently I was made to think about this as my extended family gathered to celebrate my grand mother’s 85th birthday. Since Grandma continues to know rela tively good health, with a very sound mind and is able to continue to live on her own, it was a real joy to celebrate with her. A number of grandchildren re flected on some of our memories of Grandma and what made our times with her so special. Grandma didn’t wake up one morning at age 65 or 75 and we all recognized her as being special. She is special because she was special all her life. For myself and the second half of my generation and the next one we have never really known Grandma as anything else but as retirement aged person. I needed to recognize that I’ve always thought of Grand ma as being an old person. Although, I must admit, for many years people in their 30’s seemed old to me too, now in my mid 30’s 1 think I must have been a little crazy. One memory from childhood days is of attending the same church as my grandparents. In our church at that time the older folk sat near the front on benches turned sideways. In my mind’s eye I can see rows of older people sitting there. Women with many wrinkles on the left, and men leaning on canes on the right. I remember asking, ‘Why does Grandma sit with those old people?’ As we celebrated with Grandma I had to ask myself a question. What would be the greatest disappoint ment one could face in life? As I thought about that in relation to Grandma I was reminded of the motto she lived her life by, ‘Only one life and it will soon be past. Only what’s done for Christ will last’. Wingham MNR office has new hours Effective April 3, the Wingham District Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources will be imple menting new hours of service to the public. The office, reception area and telephone answering will now be offered from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Office surveys have shown very few public inquiries are made before 8:30 a.m. and after 4:30 p.m.”, said District Administration Supervisor Orville Crawford. “The new hours of service to the public will allow us to achieve more efficient office operation including better utilization of our staff time in the District Office.” As usual, the office is closed on all weekends and statutory holi days. One of the most painful scenes of life would be coming to the end of life and looking back to realize that what one had accomplished wasn’t worth accomplishing. How painful to think that everything one count ed as important in life was simply temporary and of no eternal value. I believe that each one of us posseses a God given desire to be somebody. No so much to be somebody rich or somebody famous or somebody powerful, but rather to be somebody who is needed, somebody who is wanted, somebody who is loved - to know that you matter to someone. When they gather my descen dants to celebrate my 85th birth day, I’d like to know that what I* have accomplished by living those years will have made a difference in this world. I want to know that I added something to the world to make it a better place to live. I want to live in the real knowledge that my life has some lasting signifi cance. William James put it this way, ‘The great use of life is to spend it on something that outlasts it’. Leo Rosten wrote, ‘The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.' The Galilean carpenter who turned the world right side up said: ‘He who loses his life for my sake shall find it.’ Business & Professional Directory 1 Howatt Construction Concrete and general contracting •Foundations •Sidewalks •Driveways*Flooring R.R.#1, Auburn 523-4338 Pannell Kerr MacGillivray Chartered Accountants 380 Wallace Ave. N. 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