Teach Us to Number our Days

Recently my husband and I went on a picnic with our Wyoming friends, Jim and LuAnn. While enjoying the beauty of one of Pennsylvania's state parks, LuAnn went on a quest to find a Monarch caterpillar. We found two of them and brought them home to watch them go through the metamorphosis from caterpillar to the beautiful butterfly we enjoy. Sadly, one of the caterpillars did not survive but one of them is now in the lovely jade green chrysalis stage. Hopefully, in another few days a Monarch will emerge that I can share with my grandson, Oliver before we set it free.

As I have been watching this process unfold it has reminded me of the seasons of life that we go through. Some never get to see the completion of each season of life and some, like my grandma live long into the winter season of life. None of us know. Each day in the stage we are in is meant to be lived to its fullest because we do not know what the future holds for us.

As I was reading my Bible this morning I came across a passage that I long ago memorized. Psalm 90:12. "Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." Have I grown any wiser in this season of my life? Am I any kinder, any gentler, any more forgiving? I pray that I will be mindful of the days that God gives to me that I will first of all give Him the glory and honor that is due to Him and secondly that I will love my neighbor as I love myself. I pray that my heart will become wise and that I will use that wisdom to make better choices and decisions in whatever time God has ordained for me to live. And maybe at the end of life, I will emerge as beautiful as the Monarch with a beauty that comes from walking in the path of my Savior.