Death of nursery days...happy sunlit hours of play.
Death of childhood dreams...when the reality of personal limitations overtakes fantasy.
Death of innocence...the first awareness of evil.
Death in leaving home...when separation registers.
Death in becoming a parent...when you become the caretaker, rather than the receiver.
Death in the expectation of a perfect marriage.
Death in your child's first day at school...when the front door closes and silence grows heavy.
Death in the empty nest...when you no longer feel needed.
Death in the realisation that some expected goals will never be reached.
Death in the departure of friends...a nurturing source gone.
Death of freedom...when an incapacity confines an elderly loved one to your home.
Death in the awareness of aging...when mind and body won't respond as they once did.
Death in the wind up of working days...an identity lost.
Death in the end...that great enemy of health and youth.
But God says, 'Death is the gateway to life.'
It was at the Cross where Christ paid the penalty for sin.
It was through His death for us that God's gate to life opened.
Death shouted triumph...for two days
But on the third day, resurrection
flung wide the doors of Eternal Life. What an
incalculable gift for those accepting the
death of another in their place!
For those refusing, the sentence of death
remains Irreversible, Final.
But for those who enter it is a beginning not an ending.
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