What Kingdom Come?

We live in actions, not years,
In inspiring hope, not generating fear,
In thoughts, not breaths; in learning, not grades,
In feelings, not figures; in full colors, not shades,
And are measured by love created, not money made.

We should not count time by heartbeats
We live most when we think best,
When we act the noblest, give comfort and rest,
Stimulate and give hope to overcome.
Whose heart beats quickest, lives the longest,
Lives in one hour more than in years do some.

Life is more than means to an end; that end
Beginning, middle and end to all things - God
Or, if you prefer, Fate, or Karma, or Destiny
Or the Unexplained Order of the Universe -
None of that waits at some End; it is all in the Now.
No, the dead do not have all the glory of the world.
To those who live each moment most fully
Theirs is the kingdom of heaven.