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Hello again, my friends.

I apologize for not communicating with some of you that I would be taking a brief break from posting the Morning Devotion. I sent an email announcing the mini-sabbatical but my e-mail program had a glitch and I think it didn’t make it to many of you.

In any event, I’m back after a trip north to see family, including my dad George who has been through some major changes/challenges lately.

God is good, though, and he’s doing the best possible under the circumstances, though.

For those of you who knew the situation, I thank you for your prayers.

Dad is in the winter season of his life and I’m sure that he has been thinking a lot about his eventual graduation from this life into the next.

Today’s reading in the One-Year Bible contains a number of verses about the same topic. Solomon writes in Ecclesiastes 7 the following words…

“…the day you die is better than the day you are born. Better to spend your time at funerals than at parties. After all, everyone dies—
so the living should take this to heart…. A wise person thinks a lot about death, while a fool thinks only about having a good time”
(vv. 1-4).

Solomon isn’t advocating that we linger in grief and perpetually pondering our promised passing. Instead, he’s directing our attention to the reality that our existence involves far more than physical life on earth.

In effect, he’s saying that this life is simply a pre-cursor to our next life.

It’s like we’re in dress rehearsal for the real thing and we need to be ready when the curtain is lifted.

I like the idea that the life that comes to us after we die is better than the life we’ve had after we were born.

Let’s commit to being wise.

Let’s think alot about our upcoming death.

Not in a somber, despairing manner but instead in a joyous, anticipatory manner.

For it is such thoughts that can sustain and even encourage us in the winter of our earthly lives when our flesh is feeble, when we are almost entirely dependent on others to feed us, clean us and provide medical care for us.

The day is coming when Dad won’t have his earthly limitations because he’ll be forever in the presence of the Lord!

That truly is going to be a day that is better than the day he was born.

As always, I love you
Martin

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