In the last two weeks, I have learned of the deaths of five different people. Four of them I didn’t know personally. They were friends or relatives of friends, however it does still affect you. Today I was able to take some time to grieve for these people. It was probably not the best to put it off so long, but sometimes it seems easier to ignore the pain in our lives not realising how it is impacting us.
The one I knew personally was kind of the Grampa of the Church that I attended. A few years ago, I had helped him move to the place he was living at. We had precious times with the rest of the Church during Good Friday foot washing services. This is another topic, but it always seemed to connect the younger saints with the older ones. This and other activities with him made him dear to me although I never knew him well.
As I was thinking about their deaths and their lives, I was reminded of a statement about death by a 19th century author, “How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.” Without our God and Saviour, death is a very fearful thing, however, He has passed through death and given us the hope of the resurrection. A sunset on the one hand is the end of a day, but it is also the promise of new day coming. The sun will return and everything will be bright again. This is also our hope for death for those of us in Christ. He will transport us into the new day of His kingdom where we’ll meet those who have passed through the sunset before us.
—School of Discipleship student
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