ETERNITY: ‘Major in majors’

She looks like one of us, even her eyelashes are intact. Archaeologists call her “The Princess of Xiaohe”(2003). She was placed in a boat-shaped coffin wearing a magnificent white hat in what is now the arid Tarim Basin, western China.

Living a hundred generations ago (1450 to 2,000 B.C.?), she knew ancient politics — but those conflicts are lost to history.

Qin Shi Huang was the first emperor of a united China. A tyrannical ruler with the creation of a city-sized mausoleum guarded by a terracotta army of about a thousand life-sized soldiers.

Huang feared that the spirits of those he had slain would attack him in an afterlife. He sought immortality, but eternity greeted him at the age of 49 (210 B.C.).

From family history dating back over 400 years and World War I and II mentors — long gone — this octogenarian has learned the importance to “major in majors and try not to major in minors.” Our life on Earth is very short and Eternity beckons.

“He (God) has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts…” Ecclesiastes 3:11.

John Donne (1572-1631) wrote “… send not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.”

Christian songwriter and singer Keith Green (“Last Days Ministries”) contributed much to an earlier generation. On July 28, 1982 his plane crashed, killing all 12 aboard. Green was only 28 years old.

Let us not put too little effort in “majoring in majors” and be “a day late and a dollar short!”

JIM PEARL

Hayden