When I was a little kid, my dad had a huge garden. Every spring he would borrow a tiller from the neighbor, and till the ground to get it ready for planting.

The first year he had a terrible time making the tiller go in straight rows. He tried everything he could think of, but the rows all ran crooked and wavy. At some point, he discovered that if he just looked at the end of the row, where he wanted to end up, and didn’t let his eyes waver, the rows were almost perfectly straight.

I think, maybe, that’s how we should live our lives…with the end in sight. I should consider everything that I do in light of the fact that I will live for eternity, and how will what I am doing right now, the decisions I am making, affect me for the rest of eternity?

Adam Diehl recently wrote a post about the past, and asked a similar question. I think it’s a question we should be asking a lot more than we are now. I think it will make our journey through life so much better.