DEATH

DEATH

There are many ways of deaths may we encounter

in a course of life.

Death of nursery days ... happy, sulit hours of play.

Death of childhood dreams ... when the reality of personal

limitations overtakes fantasy.

Death of innocence ... the first awareness of evil.

Death in living home ... when separation registers.

Death in becoming parent ... when you become the caretaker,

rather than receiver .

Death in the expectation of a perfect marriage.

Death in yours child’s first day of school ... when the front door

closes and silence grows heavy.

Death in the empty nest ... when you no longer feel needed.

Death in the realization that spme expected goals will never be

reached.

Death in the departure of friends ... a nurturing source gone.

Death of freedom ... when an incapacity confines an elderly

love one to your home.

Death in the awareness of aging ... when mind and body won’t

respond as they once did.

Death in the wind-up of working days ... an identity lost.

Death in the end ... that great enemy of health and youth.

But God says,

“Death is the gateway to life”

It was so at the cross where Christ

paid the penalty for sin.

It was through His death for us

that God’s gate to life opened.

Death shouted triumph ... for two days.

But on the third day, resurrection

flung wide the doors of eternal life.

What an incalculable gift for

those accepting the death of

Another in their place. 

For those refusing, the sentence

of death remains. Irreversible.

Final.

But for those who enter, it is a

Beginning, not an ending.