May 30 Med...
To self: Today, be mindful of Death.
Most of us rarely think of death. Perhaps because we believe it's not final. Or because it's presumably a long way off, or we're just too busy, to contemplate our own demise. Two days ago, a cousin and friend I've known all my life passed away. Twenty years my senior, he lived a long and happy life, but do you think he would have liked to have had a few more years? Would his family wanted more? Sure he would. They would. As the song goes, "Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."
We're born to die; every day, we die a little unless we're very old or unhealthy, at which time we die a lot each day. I like to think of death as the end of dying...the death of dying, if you will. (I think I've stated this in a previous Med.)
After death in this world, then what? Personally, I have faith and a belief in another spiritual life. Regardless of what you believe, at least you're not dying any more. Or are you?
Is there something new to begin? Heaven? Reincarnation? Nothingness? Something to believe in?
Worth thinking about. God knows...I believe.
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The Path of Life
by D.A. Brooks
I walk the path of life today
and think on days gone by.
When we were young, and bold
and free, and oh so very spry.
We knew so very little,
were anything but wise.
Hand in hand and heart to heart,
each with the other's prize.
We ached to heal each other
whene'er there seemed a wall.
Our love so deep, we saw ourselves
as Bogart and Bacall.
Now years have passed, we've grayed
and frayed the edges of our lives.
Raised sons up now and sent them off
to cherish their own wives.
And life moves on. We're in the Fall
when most our duties done.
The pace is much, much slower,
are days a setting sun?
I surely think, still lots to do,
to experience and to see.
More paths to walk, and challenges
to meet, and things to be.
I walk the path of life today
with miles and miles to go.
Our love still there, and oft' declare
it still continue grow.
To grow, for this I know.
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"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
- Woody Allen
"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."
- Mitch Albom
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1 Corinthians 15:26...
The last enemy to be destroyed is death.