Adolph Hitler died at 56 years, at his own hand, inside his Berlin bunker. He wrote one book and ruled one nation, while his misanthropic rage killed 30-40 million between 1932-1945. His right-wing dictatorship had but one competition as a killing machine—Joseph Stalin's left-wing dictatorship responsible for 30 plus million lives in Russia and Ukraine in the 1920-1930's.
Abraham Lincoln died at 56 years, felled by an assassin's bullet. Born in poverty, he lived "the short and simple annals of the poor" until his election to the Presidency in 1860. As much a victim of the Civil War as any soldier dying for either side, he single-handedly forged, through repeated defeats to ultimate victory, a Federal Union from a previous Union of States. The three personalities teach a spiritual lesson appropriate to this Memorial Day, 2021: a person's life-goal determines his policies, pursuits, productivity and place in history. Like the three, our goals directly affect our impact on life. We need a life-goal high enough to exceed our ability to reach it. Otherwise, once reached, fulfilled or satisfied, we have exhausted our life-purpose. And, we either STOP creating or, like George Eastman, STOP living by taking his own life 3/14/32, saying his work was done—why work? Internet, 5/28/2021 Trying every possible way to be like Jesus is the one life-goal never achieved now, and only incrementally achieved in Eternity, sans perfection. That goal, always before us, higher than any reach, beyond any effort, stimulates us with relentless desire that rewards every ounce of effort with tons of blessings. With this benefit besides: it's the only goal, of all those mortals may establish, that death enhances, not interrupts. Settle for no goal that WON'T continue into eternity.
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