The Spirituality of Dying, Part 6
Preparing for the Inevitable
The Bible says in John 5:24-26: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.” The featured quote for this episode is from Edgar Allan Poe. He said, "Even in the grave, all is not lost." Our topic for today is...
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The Spirituality of Dying, Part 5
Preparing for the Inevitable
The Bible says in 1 Timothy 6:7: “We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.” The featured quote for this episode is from Mark Twain. He said, "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." Our topic for today is titled "The Spirituality of Dying, Part 5" from the book, "The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come" by Rob Moll. --- Letting Go Jim’s renewed sense of purpose and spiritual vision came about with some difficulty. First, Jim said, he had to learn to trust that God would...
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The Spirituality of Dying, Part 2
Preparing for the Inevitable
The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 9:10: “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” The featured quote for this episode is from Steve Jobs. He said, "If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." Our topic for today is titled "The Spirituality of Dying, Part 2" from the book, "The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come" by Rob Moll. --- The Veteran Paul, a World War II veteran, was dying of complications from...
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The Spirituality of Dying, Part 1
Preparing for the Inevitable
The Bible says in Revelation 14:13: “And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.” The featured quote for this episode is from H.P. Lovecraft. He said, "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange eons even death may die." Our topic for today is titled "The Spirituality of Dying, Part 1" from the book, "The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come" by Rob Moll. Because of his...
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The Individual, the Church, and the Ars Moriendi (the Art of Dying), Part 7
Preparing for the Inevitable
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The Individual, the Church, and the Ars Moriendi (the Art of Dying), Part 6
Preparing for the Inevitable
This podcast will help you get ready to face the inevitable unpleasant things that will happen in your life — things like trouble, suffering, sickness, and death — the death of people you love and your own death. ...
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The Individual, the Church, and the Ars Moriendi (the Art of Dying), Part 5
Preparing for the Inevitable
The Bible says in Psalm 39:4: “Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.” ...
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The Individual, the Church, and the Ars Moriendi (the Art of Dying), Part 4
Preparing for the Inevitable
The Bible says in Psalm 23:4: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” ...
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The Individual, the Church, and the Ars Moriendi (the Art of Dying), Part 3
Preparing for the Inevitable
This podcast will help you get ready to face the inevitable unpleasant things that will happen in your life -- things like trouble, suffering, sickness, and death -- the death of people you love and your own death. ...
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The Individual, the Church, and the Ars Moriendi (the Art of Dying), Part 2
Preparing for the Inevitable
This podcast will help you get ready to face the inevitable unpleasant things that will happen in your life -- things like trouble, suffering, sickness, and death -- the death of people you love and your own death. ...
info_outlineThis podcast will help you get ready to face the inevitable unpleasant things that will happen in your life -- things like trouble, suffering, sickness, and death -- the death of people you love and your own death.
The Bible says in Romans 14:8: "For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's."
The featured quote for this episode is from Hunter S. Thompson. He said, "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a ride!'"
Our topic for today is titled "When Death Arrives (Part 4)" from the book, "The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come" by Rob Moll.
My own first personal encounter with death came when I was twenty-seven years old. My wife and I went to visit my great aunt who was dying of cancer.
My aunt lived alone after her sister died fifteen years earlier. Aunt Eileen lived on the fifth floor of an apartment building on the 1300 block of north Lake Shore Drive. I remembered as a child staring through her window at the city below. Now, as I looked out her window, I thought about those visits when her apartment seemed as if it were set in the clouds. Neither Aunt Eileen nor her sister married. Their nieces and nephews, and their children, were her only family nearby. She lived by herself, but she wouldn't die that way. A few family members, particularly my mom, began regularly visiting her.
For years Aunt Eileen kept her cancer a secret. Even as she neared her eighties, she told no one about her trips across the park that straddled the distance between her apartment building and the hospital, just a few miles north of Chicago's Loop. She walked, not wanting to spend the money on a taxi or ask a family member for a lift to the hospital for chemotherapy. I had visited Eileen seldom in the years before she died. When she'd been sick, she didn't allow visitors. On her deathbed, however, she changed her mind.
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