Everything has its season and time

One of my friends commented that " Your religion taught you heaven is a better place for you, why are you scared of death? " and another friend responded saying that " Perhaps he is not ready yet! ".

Truthfully speaking, whether we are scared of death, be it ready or not ready, it is not for us humans to say! "There is a time to be born, a time to die, a time to sow and a time to harvest, a time to love and to hate, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time for war and a time for peace!" - Ecclesiastes 3:2

In life we always have many roles to play, slowly we realize that by far the greatest and the most important role that we play and spend the most time of our lives as ordinary people is to be parents and raise our children. Come to think of it, most if not all parents toil and sacrifice their lives just for the sake of their children!

When we play our parental role, we shoulder the responsibility to do our best for them, our beloved children. We work and earn money to cater for their needs and education, spend our time with them to give them warmth, love, care and the sense of security of being in a family. And we refrain from all kinds of risks as part of our responsibility to safeguard our stay on this earth could be long enough for us to discharge that responsibility fully as intended. We even exercise to keep ourselves physically fit and in good shape to achieve the same purpose and also to lessen the probability of becoming a liability to them as we get older. Despite of all we could have done, there is always a timing for everything, which only God will decide!

There is also a timing for our children to understand the unconditional parental love for them; perhaps not now, only the right timing, the days will come when they become parents themselves!

Even though we might eventually fall short of the threshold mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:7 - " I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race and I have kept the faith!", we are still proud to tell the world that we had fully discharged our duty as parents!

May our heavenly Father watch over all parents as we watch over our children! Amen!