found online by Raymond
From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:
I know two things about my death:
I know I’m going to die.
I also know that when the time comes, it will likely come as a surprise to me.
Death is usually like that; it arrives as a rude interruption—leaving work undone, conversations unresolved, plans unfinished, dreams unfulfilled. It rarely let’s you wait until you’re fully ready to go.
Death leaves permanent ellipses where we’d have placed periods.
We will all be in the middle of something, of many somethings, when we are taken from here to hereafter.
As much as I can, I want to be prepared.