Meaning of Life...

...Naked a man comes from his mother’s womb,
and as he comes, so he departs.
He takes nothing from his labor
that he can carry in his hand.

...All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.

For the living know that they will die,
but the dead know nothing;
they have no further reward,
and even the memory of them is forgotten.
Their love, their hate
and their jealousy have long since vanished;
never again will they have a part
in anything that happens under the sun.

...Remember your Creator

in the days of your youth

before the days of trouble come-

...Then man goes to his eternal home
and mourners go about the streets.

...and the dust returns to the ground it came from,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

-From the Book of Ecclesiastes

Jesus said, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son...”

-From the Book of John

In Memory of Carl Walter Bowser 1937-2012