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 that leads me into the eternal embrace of my
God whose love is everlasting.”
How do you feel about your own life – and death?
Ruth Poochigian, O.P.
Madison, WI
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