48 years ago today, on November 22, 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Any American who was alive that day will remember exactly where he or she was, and exactly what he or she was doing, when the news was broadcast that President Kennedy had been killed.
John F. Kennedy was just 46 years old when he was assassinated on that fateful day in Dallas, and his wife, Jacqueline, the First Lady, became a widow at the young age of 34.
As the presidential motorcade wound its way through downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, and as the motorcade slowly made its way past the Texas School Book Depository building, it is highly unlikely that President Kennedy was aware that his life was about to end in a matter of mere seconds.
But it did.
One of the lessons that we can learn from the tragic events of November 22, 1963, is that life is fleeting.
Psalm 103:15-16 (NKJV) says, "As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone ...."
Psalm 144:4 (NKJV) says, "Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow."
Isaiah 40:6-8 (NKJV) says, "All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever."
Life is fleeting, and our days are like grass, or a flower of the field, or a breath, or a passing shadow.
Our lives on this earth are fleeting and transitory, but the word of our God - and God Himself -stands forever.
That is where our focus should be as we remember the events of a very dark day in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
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