Over the past four weeks, I have been called to the bed side of 4 persons, preparing for death.
We has gotten me to think about death and dying quite a bit.
This is what I surmise so far:
The problem of life in general is that we start thinking about death when it is already too late.
We should think about death much sooner, so that we can begin to live today.
Thinking about our end should encourage us to live with the right amount of seriousness and the correct amount of levity, only then do we truly begin to enter into life to its full.
This is what St. Paul is doing in the first letter. He wants us to think about the end so that we can finally begin to live as children of the light. Thus we may live to love and in loving learn to live.
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