We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We received his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.
~ Elisabeth Elliott
~ Elisabeth Elliott
I attended a funeral this week and was reminded once again of the benefits of death–to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. To be sure, death remains our enemy until the final resurrection. Then death will gasp its last breath. Amen! But remember this also: there is no resurrection without death. And there is the rub. Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die. Jesus instructs his disciples: in order to regularly live you must regularly die. He who gives up his life finds it. But he who grasps his life loses it. This is the deep weird. But it’s a mystery we are always confronted with. Are we willing to die so we might live?
~ Magister Pater
~ Magister Pater
A Living Pencil 
Is the Window a sunrise or a sunset?
Good question…what makes sense with this post?
The 2nd quote sounds kind of Skip-ish – is it?
Chuckle…no, it’s Curt’s call to worship from last Sunday.
In one of my favorite parts of Westminster abbey there is a decorated tomb of an ancient official to an ancient king of England. It looks very much like an old fashioned square bed with the canopy of wood. All around the entire front were written the words that said something like, “live to die, die to live, live to die, die to live”. It makes me wonder about this man and how he accomplished that desire. I am still learning the importance of daily participating in my own funeral. Blessings
Oh, Maxine, I like that! Live to die, die to live. That will stick with me for a while. I’m *delighted* to see you again, D.V., in April.
Me to, you!!!