Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

How A Human Life Is Like A Single Letter Of The Alphabet

How A Human Life Is Like A Single Letter Of The Alphabet

This is such a great quote on a human life.

For we are incalculably precious.

Let’s get up and participate and be part of something bigger.

I want my life to be a small part of a great meaning.

Remember that the destination will determine how you act today.

Let’s act accordingly.

And let’s not waste our limited time here.

I saw something once from the Jewish Theological Seminary that said, “A human life is like a single letter of the alphabet. It can be meaningless. Or it can be a part of a great meaning.”

-Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies (Amazon)

Do Humans Matter?

Do Humans Matter?

To many, humans don’t matter.

I like to think that we do.

I mean humans, plants, and animals are all part of creation or the universe – we all exist – if that is the right word.

But, I prefer to believe that being human is unique.

Not unique in the sense that we have opposable thumbs, stand on two feet, and have taken technology further than any other mammal, but that humans reason, and ask, and wonder, and dream, and cry out for purpose beyond this fleeting life.

I hope humans matter.

I believe that we do.

“What led me to spirituality wasn’t only my desire to be fathered—although I like the fact that I am fathered by God. But what really lead me to spiritually was a desire to believe I was human and that being human mattered.”

–Donald Miller, Father Fiction

Sterling Terrell