Through the lens of Young adult
Moses' song — and a Moses psalm to read with it
Psalm 90 is the prayer of a man who is 120 years old.
He has seen the brevity of life. Most of us in our twenties have not. Death feels like a faraway thing. The end is somebody else’s problem. We live as if there will always be more time.
Moses says — teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts (Ps 90:12).
Number them. Not in fear. In wisdom. The years you have are finite. The choices you make today are not infinitely repeatable. The relationships you tend now are the ones you will have when you are eighty.
This is a young-adult verse. Most of us learn it too late. The wisdom of numbering your days while you are young is rare and powerful.
One small thing today: ask yourself — if I knew this year was one of my finite ones, what would I do today that I have been postponing? Then do it.