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Death and Taxes

February 11, 2009 at 9:30 pm Leave a comment

The only thing certain in life is…Benjamin Franklin made the profound statement about the 2 certainties of life that we are all familiar with: Death and Taxes. I barely made it through my college accounting class and rely heavily on other professionals to help me with my annual 1040, so I am definitely not the person to be addressing taxes. But I have dealt with death…a lot…too much…as a youth minister and as a hospice chaplain. 

In the past few days a local student lost his mother and one of our own dear church members went to be with Jesus after a battle with cancer. If it hasn’t yet, death will affect all of our lives. Tonight we talked about death and how it is a part of life. And if we are going to allow our faith in God to saturate all of the other parts of our lives we can and must approach death with an understanding of the peace and comfort that Jesus offers us. 

Death is never easy. We grieve. We go through a laundry list of emotions. It affects us deeply. But we have the peace of Jesus available to us. It’s going to be a hard few days for many in our community and in our church. Remember and remind others of these words of Jesus:

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled…” (John 14:27).

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