"What Is Dying?"
I found the following statement quite interesting when thinking about the subject of dying. I hope you benfit from this reading.
What Is Dying?
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. And then one at my side says: “THERE! She’s gone!”
Gone where? Gone from my sight – that’s all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her; and just at the moment when someone at my side says, “There! She’s gone,” there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout. “THERE! She comes!” And that is dying.
The Portales Teller, May 17, 1957 (Vol. 1, # 33). Albert McInroe, editor
I found the following statement quite interesting when thinking about the subject of dying. I hope you benfit from this reading.
What Is Dying?
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. And then one at my side says: “THERE! She’s gone!”
Gone where? Gone from my sight – that’s all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her; and just at the moment when someone at my side says, “There! She’s gone,” there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout. “THERE! She comes!” And that is dying.
The Portales Teller, May 17, 1957 (Vol. 1, # 33). Albert McInroe, editor
posted by Jarrod | 10:31 AM
1 Comments:
Great story on dying.
Your blog looks interesting.
I would like to invite you to join in on any discusion we might be having in on my blog. It might get your blog out there in the blogsphere. I hope that maybe through The Old Path God may open you up to New Paths as well. God bless you brother. Again, I believe it is only when we truely die to self as Paul mentions in Gal 2 is when we find complete joy in our lives, because we come to the understanding that the old world were are living in is about "I" but "Christ".
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