Following surgery for prostate cancer, I walked every morning for an hour...with a new pair of glasses. One vital aspect of the postmortem life, it seems, is that everything gets piercingly important. You get stabbed by things, by flowers and babies, by the mighty Mississippi and the inner beauty of your wife, by the loveliness of a plethora of things.
And, of course, it all slowly fades...
The Gospels indicate, however, that at every moment of his life Jesus was aware that everything came from the love of God. He never took his life for granted but each moment received it as a free gift from his Abba.
Reflections for Ragamuffins by Brennan Manning
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