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THURSDAY THOUGHT 1/10/08

January 10, 2008 on 2:50 pm | By John Ingrisano | In Faith & Forgiveness | No Comments

“John, I’m dying.”  With those blunt and chilling words, an old friend — not that old at all, really — confirmed what we had hoped to deny.

I’m new at this: the idea of burying friends. In my mind, I cast about for the right words, the silver-bullet pearl of wisdom to make it all right. No luck. My friend beat me to it.  “I’m good with God,” he told me. “I’m okay.”

My point: Our funhouse ride on this mortal coil will end someday. Guaranteed.  No exceptions. Only God knows the details. Only thing we can do is trust and, strange as it may seem, rejoice. — jri

“All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.”
–    King David
(Psalm 139: 16)