Death

We have to face death in order to encounter new life.

Death brings us to the door of our fears.

To the places where we want ultimate control.

It makes us let go, surrender to the unknown,

to the things which bother us most, or scare us.

Death brings us again and aging to the place where

we must give it all. Once reborn, remade, or rediscovered

we find that death isn't scary, but a part of the journey.

"Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies"

We can lose our life to find it, we can walk this way of the cross

and see it looming on the horizon, knowing death to self

Is one of the first rules. Facing the sunset, facing the end of a day,

Facing the end of the long night and knowing God remakes

us over and over like clay pots, fragile earthen vessels.

Meant not to hold, or be solidly used, but to discover

who God truly is when we are crushed, dead and remade.