A New Kind of Christian by McLaren Brian D

Author:McLaren, Brian D.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010-06-10T00:00:00+00:00

So nobody is saying that this process is going to be easy. But I think you’ll agree that in this light and in the context of the story of the gospel, death can in fact be beautiful in its time. Now I don’t think I need to remind you that this isn’t just a theoretical issue for us. This is one of life’s inevitables. As the great philosopher Blaise Pascal reminds us, “We are embarked.”2 In other words, if you are alive, you’ve already set sail. You’re already moving toward this moment. If all goes according to normal protocols, you will grow a year older every year, and eventually you will come to the time to pass through the door of death. You will either approach that door kicking and screaming, filled with regret and terror, or you will approach it as the nineteenth-century poet and novelist George MacDonald does in this beautiful poem:Our old age is the scorching of the bush

By life’s indwelling, incorruptible blaze.

O life, burn at this feeble shell of me,

Till I the sore singed garment off shall push,

Flap out my Psyche wings, and to thee rush.3

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