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air crash in Smolensk, which killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski with his wife and a number of persons with major functions in the country is a real shock for all Poles and the largest of this type of tragedy in the history of our country, which takes place in peacetime. In this tragic moment, we join in mourning with relatives of victims and their friends and colleagues. We pray also for strength and sustenance for their families.
tragic catastrophe presidential plane once again reminded us of the biblical truth about the fragility of life and the insignificance of human actions, desires and plans. Early in the morning's TU-154 passengers boarded the aircraft, with a lot of plans for the coming hours, days, weeks and years. A few hours later, everyone was talking about their lives in the past tense.
day will come - perhaps sooner than expected - when and our plans, dreams and actions will become the past. What will count only whether to believe the Gospel or accepted from the hands of God, salvation, and whether we have lived our days as witnesses and faithful follower of Christ.
Is aware of the fragility of life influences our priorities in life? Does that makes focusing on what really matters?
Give me, O Lord, make my end
And what is the measure of my days, I may
know how insignificant I am!
Here the width of the palm wymierzyłeś my days,
And my life is as nothing before you.
Just like a breath of any man, but probably is.
Verily, man is passing like a shadow,
Surely in vain the frets.
collects and does not know who it takes.
And now, what to expect, sir?
In thee is my hope.
[Psalm 39:5-8]
Listen to a lecture by Dr. John R. Ling How good to die, moving about the life of transience and death.
