As soon as Suzie is out of sight of the bakery, she gobbles down three doughnuts without even thinking of it. She discovered a pencil in her pocket but it has no eraser. Thinking quickly, she added one mark to the box top and completed her assignment with the same number inside and out. The challenge is to change your perspective from Roman numerals to capital letters. The point is that how we interpret the meaning of what is in front of us has a direct impact on our experience of it and our ability to understand its context and place in the whole of creation.
Christians look at life differently.
We know that God created us, walked with us on this planet, and has placed the divine image and spirit in us that we may all be One, as Jesus and the Father were One. We can look at the signs before us and see Christ coming again and again. My father's death was a relatively peaceful one. His breathing for the last 24 hours was pretty labored. We kept him as pain free as we could with drugs.