Sunday, August 14, 2011

LIFE AND DEATH

Life and death are subjects which have mystified man since the beginning and yet they are quite simple to understand.  Life is a gift from our Creator who expects us to use it in some useful way and death is the gateway to our reward if we please Him.  If we make a sincere effort to do His bidding when on this earth, he will take us back to His house, if not, He has arranged other lodgings for us.

I know it has not been our way to celebrate death as we do a birth but they share similarities, each is the beginning of a new, but different, life.  We spend more time grieving  the loss of a family member or friend than we do in rejoicing over the fact that an old life is entering a more glorious existence, a rebirth.  The notion that this part of our existence, earthly life, should be clung to with all our might reveals a disbelief, or at least some doubts, about what will follow.  We anticipate a luxurious vacation with more zeal than we do an eternity with Him.

Even though we should and do miss those who leave us, there should also be a rejoicing that they have fulfilled their earthly obligations and, that as good or bad earthly life may have been, a better life awaits them.

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