Week 19- From Death to Life
Have you recently discussed death over the dinner table or in a small group of friends or family? If it’s something you’re walking through right now maybe it was recent. For lot’s of us the answer is probably a no.
Death is something we don’t commonly talk about and yet we all have it in common. At some point we all would have experienced death. In a more figurative way we might have experienced the death of a dream or a relationship. We’ll also all experience the death of a loved one and eventually we’ll all participate in our own death. So…. shall we end it there and you can just enjoy this week's bread readings?
If that was the end then that version of life is pretty bleak. The good news is that it doesn’t end there for us. One of the core messages of the bible is that our life here is merely the beginning, it’s temporary and it’s not where we find home. This means we don’t have to be afraid of death. I’ve been surrounded by this message as long as I’ve been in church. We sing about it, hear it from our preachers and read it in the bible but sometimes they just feel like words and not truth. This week as you’re engaging with the passages I encourage you to really allow that message to deeply root itself as truth.
In the word’s of KXC’s song Fighting Back: “deaths not the end, it's you calling us home”