“Let Me firmly assure you, he who believes has eternal life.” (Jn: 6:47).
A few years ago, a news photographer won an award for a picture of death he had taken. A young woman was found dead in a sports car. She had died from an overdose of narcotics. Using a wide-angle lens, the cameraman produced a photograph showing not only the body pitifully sprawled across the front seat of the car, but also the parking meter which read, “Time Expired” — a haunting and grim reminder of the inevitability of death. You will die and I will die and everyone we love will die. Each day in some new way we are being reminded that we are just a heartbeat away from death. Inevitably, the epitaph, “Time Expired” applies to all, and we shouldn’t wilt when Jesus reminds us of this reality.
Psychologists, psychiatrists, theologians and others are telling us that it is dangerous to repress our anxieties about death. It is tearing us…
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