Beginning and ending

The discussion around the table focused on many things.  Family, life, fun, church, decor and much more.

One topic hit home to me.  I brought up the question.  We were a group gathered because one of us is deathly sick.  Not dead – not even dying in the sense of confined to bed and one respirators and life giving support. 

But the cancer is there and symptoms were there – and a next stage might be approaching.

When we begin our lives after high school, when we marry and have a family, when a new career arises . . . our inclination is to plan ahead for adventure.  We want to achieve something.  We want to make a mark.  We want to have security.

When end of life becomes a focus, the priorities change.  We are now planning for another adventure.  We want to find a way to be peaceful with our lives.  We want a way to surrender control that we have gained in our adventure of life so far.  We want a way to step into the next days where our worth is no longer based on our achievement.

In one sense the end of life issues are just the upside-down of the beginning of life issues.  God’s answers are sprinkled in the Bible and seen in those who follow him.  This is something I want to explore more over this next while.

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