This understanding cannot come all at once. We are so accustomed to look at dying as being all there is to death that we have to train ourselves to look through and beyond. We have to work at the knowledge that Death is only an old door set in a garden wall. On quiet hinges it gives at dusk, when the late birds call. There is nothing to trouble any heart, nothing at all.
Death is only an old door in a garden wall.
One of the best ways to help us realize death as a door is to affirm again the message of Christ s resurrection and realize by that that we are loved by God. That love of God carries us beyond the dying part of death and helps us see the birthing part of death, the new life that death reveals to us. But we can t see that new life until we pass through that door called death. Christ s resurrection helps us to come to that door and open it with courage and expectancy. Website powered by Webnet Concepts .