“Let me die the death of the righteous...”
--Numbers 23: 10b
“And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three;
and the greatest of these is love.”
--1 Corinthians 13: 13
With apologies to Charles Dickens, this is a tale of three funerals. The first one was for someone from my town, someone unknown to me. The second one was for a family friend, my mother’s best friend from high school. The third was an acquaintance from my church, known because I sat near him and usually talked briefly to him as I left Sunday services each week.
The First: On a cloudy, windy, sort of depressing day in the fall, I was riding my bike to the pharmacy to get a prescription of Pravastatin Sodium, a cholesterol drug which was supposed to pro-long my life. As I went south into Hastings on the four-lane highway from my home at the Lochland sub-division, I met a police car driving slowly with his lights flashing...
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Thoughts to Ponder/Points for Discussion
1. 11. Have you experienced a loved-one’s death recently? What changes will you make in your life because of their death?
2. 2. Do you believe that fate determines the course of a human life? How does Christianity influence your philosophy?
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