i was sitting in Culver's today watching TV. The circumstances leading up to me watching television at a fast food restaurant are not worth discussing so please just accept the fact that I was doing it.
As i was watching the news a story came up about four teen suicides in Ohio due to bullying. all around me people were eating their lunches, driving thru the drive-thru. just living their lives, ignoring this horrific story of four young people who were driven to such despair that they took their own lives.
i do not blame the people at Culver's. i do not believe that these people were heartless or that they did not care. they were just too used to it. we are surrounded by stories like these. death seeps in everywhere. it is in our lives, in our every move. death is in the books we read, the movies we watch, and the games we play. lets face it, we are all going to really die eventually. but thats exactly what worries me...the fact that our culture doesn't accept real death.
all of us were born dying. the minute we escaped the womb and began life we began our descent towards death. our beginning marked our end. real death is something that no one wants to talk about. its like a profanity that everyone is thinking but no one is willing to say.
death does not get the respect it deserves.
death is used as entertainment. death is considered fun. or even funny. death creates an eerie, mysterious feeling that doesn't allow us to put down the Agatha Christie*. death is used as a marketing ploy
it all comes down to this:
death is acceptable as long as it doesn't affect us.
but what is death meant to be?
i believe that death was never meant to be....yet because of the fall it now exists.
i believe that God loved us enough that he gave us freedom...which we abused
he gave us chances to become one with him...which we abused
he gave us his son Jesus Christ as atonement for our sins...whom we abused
finally, he took death and turned it in to a doorway to Him...will we also abuse this?
death is not part of God's plan. but He has been merciful enough to allow us an escape thru it
*i like Agatha Christie :)
