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Life Anyone? Why Must Death Always Be the Catalyst?
9/8/2009 5:00:06 PM
As long as we learn life’s lessons most profoundly in death, we will continue to be haunted by the spectra of the Grim Reaper for it is here that death gets its greatest power. So long as lovers allow death to be the catalyst to the altar, death will retain its power over us and we will miss the abundant life for which such a heavy price has been paid.
Sometimes a headline can grab your attention and cause you to form opinions which after reading the story change drastically. That happened to me today when I read the headline, “Couple get married at 7-year-old son’s funeral.” Immediately, I thought what an awful thing to do not only in overshadowing the son’s homegoing, but in shocking the people who came to a funeral only to witness a wedding. I mean some of them may have opted out had they known the boy’s parents would be getting married. What about truth in advertising?
However, after reading the story I came to understand why the parents got married at the funeral and my shock and other negative vibes dissipated. It appears the boy had an intense desire that his parents marry and they decided to honor him by getting married at his funeral. But now I am bothered by something which surfaced as I started writing this blog. Why must death be a catalyst for people to do in death what they were unwilling to do in life?
Why could the parents not have gotten married while the child was still alive and given him the home and family for which he seemed in desperate need? Did they suddenly discover that they loved each other and wanted to spend their lives together after their son died in an automobile accident? How true then is this epiphany and how long will it last?
Still, the troubling question is what is it about we humans that hamper our ability to learn in life what we seem to learn after death? Troubling as this is for individuals, it is perilous for institutions and governments. Take for instance the fact that America refused to realize it had a drug problem until Art Linkletter’s daughter jumped to her death or the sad state of affairs to which America woke up after the bombing of Pearl harbor and again after September 11.
To those of you reading this post, how many of you have found strength and enlightenment after someone’s death which you could have found in life but did not? Perhaps it is here that Christianity has its greatest influence on the psyche of Western civilization. For enigmatic to this world religion is why could God not find forgiveness before His son suffered such a brutal death on the cross? How is it that a God who IS love, grace, and mercy cannot forgive sin except upon the sacrifice of His “only begotten son?” And is that really forgiveness? After all, if Christ “paid the price” for our sins, how then can or does God forgive us?
Bankruptcy offers forgiveness of debt and that is why provisions in the law allow for a non filing co-signer to be relieved of any obligations on the underlying debt. For government recognizes that if your co-debtor has to pay, then you are really not being forgiven of the debt since the cosigner is most likely a relative or friend whom you will be morally obligated to repay. If government has such deep insight into forgiveness, then how is it that an omnipotent, omnipresent, all knowing God cannot achieve such insight and enact a more sound policy of forgiveness?
As long as we learn life’s lessons most profoundly in death, we will continue to be haunted by the spectra of the Grim Reaper for it is here that death gets its greatest power. So long as lovers allow death to be the catalyst to the altar, death will retain its power over us and we will miss the abundant life for which such a heavy price has been paid. Are you choosing life? Is anyone choosing life in this culture of death and dying?
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