{"id":95807,"date":"2025-06-12T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=95807"},"modified":"2025-06-11T16:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:47:23","slug":"our-lives-on-earth-are-like-a-vapor-so-carpe-diem-seize-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/06\/12\/our-lives-on-earth-are-like-a-vapor-so-carpe-diem-seize-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Our lives on Earth are like a vapor [So “Carpe Diem!” — seize the day!!!]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nMy brother lost a lifelong friend recently and I’ve lost friends and family members waaaay too soon as well. It made me reflect, once again, on the brevity of our lives here on Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Psalms 90:12<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.<\/p>\n

James 4:14<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.<\/p>\n

Psalms: 39:5<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.<\/p>\n

Psalms 144:3-4<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Lord, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them? They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From DSC: My brother lost a lifelong friend recently and I’ve lost friends and family members waaaay too soon as well. It made me reflect, once again, on the brevity of our lives here on Earth. Psalms 90:12 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. James 4:14 Why, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,37,95,500,248,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-future","category-global-globalization","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-relationships","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95807"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95813,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95807\/revisions\/95813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}