10.19.11
On Death & Dying
Sometimes……rather make that most of the time, the world doesn’t make much sense to me. Why does it seem that the men and women who do the most good to change our world and make it a better place, a kinder more gentler place; or those who move us forward on a journey of discovery are the ones to leave this world too soon.
As I grow older I find more and more how little I really know and how little I understand God or the cosmos or whomever you believe, if you believe, is running the show. With the passing of Steve Jobs I find myself once again thinking of all the very talented and incredibly genius people who died to soon and the list seems to go on and on and the question in my mind is ‘why?’
My faith tells me I mustn’t question God’s ways but believe that God has a plan much greater than anything I could ever conceive but I have to ask myself, what plan could there be that takes those whom we seem to need the most from this world? Can they really have done all that they could do, might have done? I certainly don’t know and neither does anyone else on this plane that’s a question for a higher power. Still the struggle goes on inside me with my faith telling me one thing and my intellect another. Am I doomed to hell and damnation for questioning God; I think not. I think we are meant to raise questions to think of possibilities why else would we have been given this thing called intellect.
To the world there are great loses to be felt though there be no wounds healed, no broken hearts mended, we suffer the loss of many and ponder our own mortality.
This ancient proverb from the Greek perhaps sums it up: “Whom the gods love dies young.”
For Folks Like Us……..A.L.