Life with an Eternal Perspective

There is this pervasive pull within us to live as if this physical, temporal life were all there was to existence.  But this pull is but an undertow that tries to rip us away from the profound and devastating truth: life has an eternal value.  It is not enough to think of life as merely something that is confined to the here and now, to the present.  Instead, we must live life with an eternal perspective, recognizing the eternal nature of our lives and letting that perspective compel us to live life in a way befitting that perspective.  In the end, we are called to live life focused on the eternal One, which reminds us that our lives do, in fact, possess within them an eternal element as a result of bearing the image of God.  This is to be our eternal perspective, that guides every part of our lives and our beings.  We would do well to keep this focus in every aspect and every facet of our loves.