DAY 331
Your Life Is a Passing Mist
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ORIGINAL
ποία γὰρ ἡ ζωὴ ὑμῶν; ἀτμὶς γάρ ἐστε πρὸς ὀλίγον φαινομένη, ἔπειτα καὶ ἀφανιζομένη.
📜 THE VERSE
What is your life? It is a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
❓ TODAY'S QUESTION
How does my assumption that tomorrow is guaranteed make me careless with today?
📝Reflection
James likens life to morning mist—vanishing as soon as the sun comes up, brief and fleeting like our own lives. This is not a call to live in despair but its opposite. Knowing it is mist makes this present moment precious. The impermanence of the Buddhists and the "vanity of vanities" of Ecclesiastes meet here. One who takes tomorrow for granted puts off today. One who knows life is mist does not postpone until tomorrow what there is to love today.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
One kind word or call you have put off for "later"—make it now, before the mist lifts.
📖 Source:
James 4:14.
그리스어 원전(Westcott-Hort 1881) + 개역한글판(1961, PD) 참조, ONGO 자체 의역.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
