This is theme music for A Christmas Carol, 1984, starring George C. Scott and directed by Clive Donner. I say it’s a very good thing with which to close out the year!
If it’s about nothing else, A Christmas Carol is about repentance. That ought to be an important enough theme for any and all of us.
In full agreement with you. Thank you for this lovely reminder.
We watched this version Christmas Eve, overall, a pretty good one.
I think this fits here, since its the end and start of another year.
Time
Another year’s been written down;
It was a time of joy and pain.
My love for God and man
At times did wax and wane.
The time did swiftly fly—
I just cannot recall
Another year so short
It’s now a memory, that is all.
The time that I have spent
I cannot hold within my hand.
I cannot place it in a drawer
Or see it on the land.
Did I spend it wisely
For things I cannot hold?
It just has slipped into the past,
It really wasn’t gold.
In theory, time, it can’t run out.
But when I breathe my last
The time for me will end;
My life will be the past.
But time I have so much,
I just can’t count it all.
It flows all through my life
Each summer, winter, fall.
Time can be your friend
Or deadly, evil foe.
Time can go so fast
Or trickle very slow.
Just ask the one in pain, dying on the bed,
How much time he’d like to have,
“It was too short,”
He would have said.
But time is never fast or slow,
It’s something you can’t see.
For time will run its course, until eternity.
Eternity for you is just around the bend,
Or maybe many days from now,
But it just as soon will end.
Some things are very costly,
But time you cannot buy.
And no matter how you spend your days,
You soon must say goodbye.
The conclusion of the matter
Was written long ago:
Love the Lord with all your heart,
Your body, and your soul.
“For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” James 4:14
That last verse brings to mind Ecclesiastes. (I’m not able to get up and check just now.)
Ah–found it online! Ecclesiastes 12: 13-14