"Where you invest your love; you invest your life."
The sense of the eternal is palpable in this song (Awake My Soul) and particularly in the lyric:
In these bodies we will live. In these bodies we will die. Where you invest your love; you invest your life.
Our bodies and our circumstances are only temporary, and the only things which last are things like love, faith, and hope. Of course the things we worry most about are rarely the amount of energy, time, and effort we put toward love, faith, and hope. We can nearly kill ourselves with the amount of energy we expend on the things which will always fail us because they simply cannot last.
Once your body dies, there will be no remembrance of the amount of hours you spent at work. The numbers on the scale you fluctuated through will reveal how pointless they always were. Even if you are buried with them, those gadgets you fought so hard to acquire will be older than antiques and just as worthless.
Once your body dies, those who knew you will speak aloud of how much you loved. Under their breathe, they will speak perhaps of the lack of love you gave.
The only sad thing of this thought is if I think upon that and choose not to make the comments under the breathe be the same as those spoken aloud!
