The circle of lifeSection guide: [ Jon's Page ] [ The Family ] [ Terri Schiavo Letter ] Let the dead bury their dead. -- Jesus  Jesus makes an important point in his command for the "dead" to bury their "dead." He is telling us that we have two kinds of lives: spiritual and physical. The "dead" he refers to in this famous scripture are people who are spiritually dead. He is calling his followers to eschew a physical life characterized by spiritual death, and to embrace spiritual life, now and forever more.
I have bid sad farewells to my husband, my beloved brother, and several close friends. I believe that their souls continue to journey on, in circumstances I can intuit or only guess at. A Christian man on the Titanic faced his rapidly approaching demise with great calm in the midst of the panic and chaos of the passengers on the sinking ship. "I am not going down," he declared, "I am going up." The message for the living is: believe in the Lord of life, stand firm in your faith, journey with hope, do good while you can, trust God for the rest. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face;
now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. (I Corinthians 13:12) Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. (I Corinthians 2:9) This world is like a vestibule before the world to come;
prepare yourself in the vestibule that you may enter the hall.
(Mishnah, Abot 4:21)
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