1477) Number Your Days

Monk Contemplating a Skull  (1875), Thomas Couture (1815-1879) ------------------------ To be happier, start thinking more about your death! This essay by Arthur C. Brooks first appeared in the New York…

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1426) The Narrow Way

     To many people, life after death remains an unsolvable mystery.  It is far too awesome for them to comprehend.  I like to think, however, that it is best…

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1424) Going Home

   “I received good news from my hospice nurse today,” said the elderly lady I was visiting.  Helen was had been battling cancer for a year, but was now about…

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1317) Ars Moriendi

----------------- FROM A FUNERAL SERMON:      When Ralph told me about his mother's last few months, during which she knew she was dying, I thought of the Latin phrase…

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1290) Last Letter Home

2nd Massachusetts Lieutenant Colonel Wilder Dwight  (1833-1862) ------------------------------      On September 17, 1862, Lieutenant Colonel Wilder Dwight was on his horse waiting for the order to go into battle…

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1222) Which Way?

    Many people have chosen the following poem (or a variation of it) for the epitaph on their gravestone.   This one was found in a cemetery in Waynesville, North…

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1157) Interruptions

     It is interesting see what Jesus does when he is around death.  We will consider three accounts from the Gospels.  To more fully comprehend the message of these…

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1114) Ignorality

Michael Perry --- Don't bother looking for 'ignorality' in the dictionary.  It's not in there yet, and probably won't ever be.  It is a word Michael Perry made up to…

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