Facing the Future with Joy and Aplomb
Because I am
going through a serious illness, I find that whether I am exercising at the
YMCA, or shopping at the store, or doing something else, I frequently think
about life and death issues. I expectantly pray for healing of my body now, but
I also know that someday Jesus will call me, and everyone else, home. Not only
do I reflect on my own death, but at times I reflect on the fact that everyone
I see must also cross that chasm.Everyone I see on a day at the gym faces their own death in some future
moment. This is quite a thought. It tends to make me pray for everyone.
Death is a
certain trial that we must all face. No one can avoid it, but mostly we do avoid
thinking about it, because, we think, “what good would it do?” Actually it might
do us some good.
For most of
us our own death is a “biggie.” It is huge, major… “a real bummer” as some in
my generation might say. For those who believe that death is ceasing to
exist---it threatens to crush an…
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