In June 2003, Dr. George Brumley, a leading Atlanta physician/philanthropist, and 11 members of his family took a vacation to Kenya for a safari and other riches that country has to offer.
Unfortunately, late one afternoon they also chartered a turbo prop jet to tour Mt. Kenya, and in the middle of the flight, the pilots circled too close to the mountain, clipped one of the wings, and sent the whole family to their deaths. It was a senseless and deeply tragic accident.
The Christmas before they died, Dr. Brumley gave the family's minister a copy of a Sanskrit poem written 2,000 years ago. Dr. Brumley didn't know it at the time, but that gift provided the ground for his remaining family members to move forward:
"Listen to the salutation of the dawn... Look to this day, for it is the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the realities and truth of existence: the joy of growth, the splendor of action, the glory of power. For yesterday is but a memory, and tomorrow a vision, but today well-lived makes every yesterday a memory of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope."
I love the last line...."today well-lived makes every yesterday a memory of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope." We'll talk more about it this weekend as we
consider this passage and continue our sermon series on Living with Courage and Hope.
Come, and bring a friend.
