Happy Easter!
Christ is risen from the dead! By death, he trampling death and to those in the tomb, he granted life!
Tag: Death
Music Monday: Do not stand at my grave and weep
Aside from the slightly Pagan overtones ;-), I’ve recently really been enjoying “Do not stand at my grave and weep” by Leah:
Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
Friday Frivolity: So close, Nietzsche, so close…
I know I should be posting this at Easter and not Christmas, but it made me chuckle so much I decided I just had to share it now…
Regrets of the Dying
“Memento Mori” went the medieval saying…”Remember Death”. In the thoughtful arfticle below, Jennifer Fulwiler talks about the top five regrets of the dying, a very useful resource to read in preparation for a new year…
Wise Words On Wednesday: A Life of Praise
I will give praise during my lifetime, I will not be a dead person among the living
– St. Ephraim
Bach’s Final Words
Wise Words On Wednesday: Kenosis
Whether it’s turning twenty-one, forty, or sixty-five, whether it’s losing your health or your hair, your books or your beauty, your money or your memory, a person you love or a possession you prize, yesterday’s rapture or today’s applause, you have to move on. Essential to the human’s pilgrimage to the Christian journey is the self-emptying more or less like Christ’s own emptying. Time and again, from womb to tomb, you have to let go. And to let go is to die a little. It’s painful, it can be bloody; and so we hang [on], clutch our yesterday’s, like Linus’s blanket, refuse to grow
– Walter Burghardt