Today Will Soon Be Gone

My wife was Gone for a week and went to pick her up last night.

Our week apart is now Gone.

On the first day back together we went to St. Philips for our nighttime activity. As I was in the adoration chapel with her I started to read a copy of a book given to me from one of the guys in my Men of St. Joseph Catholic prayer group. I read this passage that jumped out at me.

 We have forgotten our finitude. Finitude is the state of having limits, bounds, or an end. We are human beings, we have limits, and it is past time we started living with that in mind. Every day we participate in an epic clash between the infinite and the finite. Your time is finite, but the possibilities are endless. Life isn’t about getting everything done. That’s impossible. Our refusal to face this immutable truth has resulted in epidemic levels of dissatisfaction. This dissatisfaction has led us to doubt, question, and dislike ourselves for not being able to do something that was impossible to begin with.
-Matthew Kelly, Slowing Down to the Speed of Joy: The Simple Art of Taking Back Your Life  (2025)

It made me think this bible verse we pray in the liturgy of the hours.

So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.
-Psalm 90:12

Recently a girl I knew in college died at around age 50. I couldn’t go to the celebration of life cause I was working and couldn’t get it off. She like my college days are Gone.

And soon Today Will Soon Be Gone like past events on July 25  are now Gone.

July 25, 1788

 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).

 December 5, 1791

The great genius composer is Gone at 35.

June 25, 1897

American author Jack London embarks on a sailing trip to take part in the Klondike‘s gold rush, from which he wrote his first successful stories.

November 22, 1916

The author of such classics as  The Call of the Wild and White Fang is Gone at 40.

These events again remind us that

Today Will Soon Be Gone.

Remember Psalm 90:12  I mentioned above.

So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.

I love how St. Thérèse of Lisieux embraced this truth in her “little way” of finding God in the moment. She knew each mundane task – like washing dishes – was an opportunity to love God. She didn’t wait for grand gestures, but lived fully awake to the spiritual potential of the present.

The Psalmist and St. Thérèse both call me to live with wisdom of heart – to number my days, to treasure each fleeting moment, and to stay spiritually awake to God’s presence here and now. This is how one can gain wisdom of heart. It is an important reminder in light of the Gospel yesterday regarding the 10 virgins and the bridegroom (Matthew 25:1-13). –Make Us Know the Shortness of Our Life – by Lawain McNeil

People die everyday. Most people you or I don’t know or have ever heard of. Celebrities are no better or more important than anyone else who dies. But they are more wildly know by the general population. We read their books, listen to their music, and watch them in movies or TV shows. When they pass on to their eternal reward the mass media lets us know that they are no longer breathing and among the living. They are

Gone.

Looking back 40 years ago when Back to the Future was released, Ronald Reagan was president and Coca-Cola changed its formula and released New Coke, these notable cultural events took place.

February 7, 1985
The Cosby Show Season 1 Episode 17
“Theo and the Joint”

Clair discovers a marijuana joint in one of Theo’s school books. She and Cliff confront him about it and accept his explanation that another boy slipped it into his book without his knowledge. Theo confronts the boy and brings him home to confess in order to remove any doubt about whether he was telling the truth. Theo and the boy start to become friends.- Wikipedia.

Theo was played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner

The Cosby Show is now Gone.

July 20, 2025

The Actor who played  Theodore Huxtable on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–1992) is Gone at 54.

YIKES!!!

That’s the age I am now.

January 19, 1985
Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Rio Rock City

The last concert of Ozzy’s Bark at the Moon Tour.

That tour is now Gone.

February 25,  1985

The live album The Other Side of Ozzy Osbourne was released on this date.

November 8, 1985

 Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne become the parents of Jack Osbourne

July 22, 2025

Ozzy is Gone at 76.

March 31, 1985
Madison Square Garden
New York City, New York

The inaugural WrestleMania is held  and is “main-evented” by Hulk Hogan and Mr. T vs. Paul Orndorff and Roddy Piper in a tag-team match.

December 30, 1985
Madison Square Garden
New York City, New York

The WWF (World Wrestling Federation) brought to fans live and on TV, WWF Champion Hulk Hogan (Terry Gene Bollea in real life) and his battle against Macho Man Randy Savage in which Savage came out the winner of the match.

 WWF was mega big in the 80’s and Hulk Hogan was its face. He was so popular CBS gave him his own cartoon show that ran Saturday mornings from September 14, 1985 to October 18, 1986, with reruns airing until June 27, 1987. It was Hulk Hogan’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling.

That show is now Gone.

 July 24, 2025

The Hulkster is now Gone at 71.

The band Switchfoot reminds us that…

Today will soon be
Gone, like yesterday is gone
Like history is gone
The world keeps spinning on
You’re going, going, gone
Like summer break is gone
Like Saturday is gone
Just try to prove me wrong
You pretend like you’re immortal (You’re immortal)
You’re immortal (You’re immortal)

Gone,

like Frank Sinatra
Like Elvis and his mom
Like Al Pacino’s cash nothing lasts in this life
My high school dreams are gone
My childhood sweets are gone
Life is a day that doesn’t last for long

My Childhood Sweet Home As I Knew It Growing Up is

GONE

The House Today

The Wall on the right is where we are sitting in the picture above.

Remember learn how to number our days,

So that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Because Today Will Soon Be Gone.

But if you imitate St. James the Great (whose feast day is July 25), in following and being dedicated to Christ you won’t be Gone forever but will be remembered in a realm where you never be Gone but will Go On Eternally.

So death is at work in us, but life in you.
Since, then, we have the same spirit of faith,
according to what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke,
we too believe and therefore speak,
knowing that the one who raised the Lord Jesus
will raise us also with Jesus
and place us with you in his presence.
Everything indeed is for you,
so that the grace bestowed in abundance on more and more people
may cause the thanksgiving to overflow for the glory of God
–2 Corinthians 4:12-15 Reading For July 25, 2025