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Every morning at sunrise, Philip
of Macedonia, father to 

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Alexander the Great, instructed 
one of his servants to come into

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his room and to wake him up. 
But this was not a normal wake 

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up call. 
The servants would enter his 

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room, draw the curtains and say 
to him, Philip, remember that 

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you must die. 
This man was the king and the 

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military ruler of the greatest 
civilization on earth. 

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But each day, he chose to remind
himself of the one thing that 

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most of us want to forget, that 
we will die. 

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I like to imagine the modern 
equivalent of this. 

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You're walking out of your house
and the last thing that your 

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spouse says to you is, I hope 
you have a good day. 

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Don't forget that you're going 
to die. 

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But this one ritual, it's what 
Philip of Macedonia credited all

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of his success to. 
This ritual reminds me of the 

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inscriptions on sundials. 
Sundials always have these 

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brooding dark aphorisms 
inscribed on them. 

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Like stop and consider it is 
later than you think, or our 

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last hour is hidden from us so 
that we watch them all. 

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The book of Hebrews says it like
this. 

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Each person is destined to die 
once and after that comes 

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judgement. 
Ecclesiastes says for everything

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there is a season, a time for 
every activity under heaven, a 

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time to be born, and a time to 
die. 

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While uncomfortable, it's 
important to remember that our 

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time here is temporary. 
There's only so much time to 

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tell someone that you love them 
or to let go of that grudge 

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you've been holding. 
There's only so much time to 

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chase your dreams or to spend 
time with family. 

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The point of this ritual is 
simple and remembering that your

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death is coming, you will live. 
This has been everyday miracles 

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by hope, mindfulness and prayer.