There is just one thing that matters:
     Our relationship with God.
He's the only One whom we should
    Please, adore, applaud.

Things here are only temporal...
     All that exists today
Will grow dimmer each tomorrow
     And soon will pass away.

Nothing lasts forever,
     No matter our desire.
Things come our way to teach us
     And then they, too, expire.

If joy lasts for a moment
     A person't truly blessed,
But we must hold it loosly
     For it might soon be repossessed.

And if we've grasped it tightly
     And insist on holding on,
It causes even greater pain
     When it must be withdrawn.

So we take the good that's given us
     And use it for today,
Holding it with open hands
     To release to yesterday.