Death as a gift... (reflection for August 13, 2006)

People usually fear death, they sometimes forget the fact that death is a part of life that needs preparation. The result of this problem is the over-advancement of medical technology that will soon affect the people and the society. Scientists are making technology that can improve life by making it longer and stable. By the time that this kind of technology will be finished, all will crave for it. Thus, builiding an immortal society.

My friends, life is not meant to be immortal. We will all die someday and when that moment comes, we must be ready for it. Ready not only to death, but also to the life after it, that is what being meant in today's Gospel when Jesus said that He is the bread of life. We must live our lives in following Christ so that we may have the grace in living with Him eternally in the next.

Death is a gift, people often look at death as the creepy black cloth with skeleton hands without a face while holding a black stick with a hooked thick blade on top. This is what I believe is a product of man's imagination that does not have a radical proof that it really exists. People who fear death are the people who have their lives sinful and uncleansed. If you have a holy and virtous life, why fear death when you can assure to yourself that you'll be happy in the next?

Life is short, don't you think it's about time to give credit to the one who lend it? you'll never know when will He take it back.