just a few thoughts.
we cannot choose the manner of our death.
we can sometimes (often?) choose the way in which we approach it...i.e. strengthen ourselves, call out in fear or pain or surprise or anguish...
our approach is something we have some control over, and is directed of course by our belief system re: death.
sometime i will tell you about some deaths i have witnessed - but not just yet.
spiritual things which i believe DO NOT DIE and which we must nurture in our own souls/spirits and eternal cores are: faith, hope and love (read 1 Corinthians 13 in the new testament, and you will see what i am "on about")...
we all know something of the second world war and the holocaust, and much more accomplished writers have given accounts of how the hope of victims/survivors/dying affected their "approach to death" (primo levi, anne frank, etc.)...
(listen to Oliver Messiaen's Quartet For the End of Time, composed while in a concentration camp and performed therein also, for an example of choosing to transcend one's circumstances)
i just wanted to encourage you, whether "religious" (covers a multitude of ideas, but we'll tackle that later) or not, to allow the areas of faith, hope and love to grow in your life starting NOW...these things remain (you can hopefully see how your parents' faith, hope and love have come thru to you and others), whereas your car, your money, even your garden and your house - even your physical body! - will slide away to nothingness...
lovely coffee with andy c. today.
annelies here cooking up a storm in the kitchen NOW.
tomorrow 8.30 meeting to talk about doing some more work at otahuhu college.
friday 9.30 am oncology pre-admit.
lots of love, faith and hope to all of you,
Gerald.
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