pühapäev, aprill 24, 2005
One Month Ago
One month ago today was Maundy Thursday. I had a wonderful time of worship and fellowship with several friends here in Tartu.
It is also the day my mother was Promoted to Glory. (It was Thursday in America, but already the beginning of Good Friday here in Estonia.)
Here is a great quote from Catholic Christianity, by Peter Kreeft, a book that my dear friend Mary Walker sent to me while we were in America (recommended reading for everyone!):
"Since [death] is natural, we honestly confront it and accept it as a fact of our being, instead of avoiding it by endless diversions of our attention or, by living in denial, pretending it is not there.
"Since it is also unnatural, the inescapable punishment for our sin, we hate it and fight it as our enemy, 'the last enemy' (1 Cor. 15:26).
"Finally, since it is also supernatural, transformed by Christ's Resurrection, we welcome it. For if we are in Christ, death comes to us as God's golden chariot sent to fetch his Cinderella bride from the cinders of this dying world to his golden castle to live with him in eternal ecstasy."
Gotta love that last sentence!
This book starts out:
"We need faith because our world is full of death.
"And so are we. Each one of us will die."
I am so glad that God asked my sister to give me this book, that she was obedient, and that I have already read almost half of it! It has been a comfort to this grieving heart of mine in a way that a book specifically about mourning never could be.
Evelyn
It is also the day my mother was Promoted to Glory. (It was Thursday in America, but already the beginning of Good Friday here in Estonia.)
Here is a great quote from Catholic Christianity, by Peter Kreeft, a book that my dear friend Mary Walker sent to me while we were in America (recommended reading for everyone!):
"Since [death] is natural, we honestly confront it and accept it as a fact of our being, instead of avoiding it by endless diversions of our attention or, by living in denial, pretending it is not there.
"Since it is also unnatural, the inescapable punishment for our sin, we hate it and fight it as our enemy, 'the last enemy' (1 Cor. 15:26).
"Finally, since it is also supernatural, transformed by Christ's Resurrection, we welcome it. For if we are in Christ, death comes to us as God's golden chariot sent to fetch his Cinderella bride from the cinders of this dying world to his golden castle to live with him in eternal ecstasy."
Gotta love that last sentence!
This book starts out:
"We need faith because our world is full of death.
"And so are we. Each one of us will die."
I am so glad that God asked my sister to give me this book, that she was obedient, and that I have already read almost half of it! It has been a comfort to this grieving heart of mine in a way that a book specifically about mourning never could be.
Evelyn
