To go or to stay

After Philippians 1:18-26

What a choice: to go on

to the end, the reward,

grasping the promised

prize, and embrace 

the relief of the end

of travail; or to stay,

continuing to work,

to labor, to build up.

Both options offer

rewards, one eternal

and one earthly for now,

and I might prefer one

over the other, but 

I know the choice

Is not mine. 

Photograph by Javier Allegue Barros via Unsplash. Used with permission.