Resurrection

He is risen, and with Him, we too can rise.

I'm not a big fan of dying. It hurts, losing all your powers of body and mind is humiliating, and there are no more chances--"Pencils down. Time's up." Woulda/coulda/shoulda--but too late.

What of that does resurrection change? The pain would be past, and the soul and body restored. Are there any more chances? Probably not.

"Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works." — Robert Farrar Capon

I look at my life and talents and, I think properly, see the losses and waste. But perhaps what was done for God, however half-heartedly--perhaps some of my dead deeds can also be resurrected and purified, in union with Him and His resurrection.