Maybe I say this because I’m
a preacher, but one of the things I hate about death is the silence. When there
are no more words and the labored breathing gradually ebbs away into nothing,
and in the darkened room all is silent, that’s what I hate. The conversation
that so consumed a life, that give-and-take between God and one of God’s
children, is ended. Silence.
Now, with the last breath
and in the dark stillness, deadly silence, the next word is up to God. “And God
said, ‘Let there be light….’” Christians are those who fully expect that the
God who was so determined to talk with us in life shall also speak to us in
death. Our last day in this life shall be like the first day of Creation.
Evening, changed to morning; our end, by the grace of God, fresh beginning,
sunrise:
“The spirit of the LORD speaks through me, His word
is upon my tongue…. like the light of morning, like the sun rising on a
cloudless morning, gleaming from the rain on grassy land.” (2 Samuel 23:2,4)
Thanks be to God!
-- Bishop William H. Willimon
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