Meeting God Face to Face
An experience I had recently shed light on an experience all of us will have some day. I experienced the death of one of my classmates. It was sobering because I suddenly had to face my own mortality! At the same time it gave me a chance to reflect on that most meaningful encounter of any of our lives: our readiness to meet God face to face! What will it be like? Will I be ready? Will I be resistant? Will I be fearful? Will I be relieved? Spiritual writer Henri Nouwen once wrote, before his own death in 1996, “ Am I afraid to die? I am every time I let myself be seduced by the noisy voices in my world telling me that my ‘little life’ is all I have and advising me to cling to it with all my might. But when I let these voices move to the background of my life and listen to that small soft voice calling me the Beloved, I know that there is nothing to fear and that dying is the greatest act of love, the act...
