It is for us
to live each moment
completely,
though we know the truth
that one day we all must die.© 2018 Dennis Ference
Merging Traffic
Poems, Musings, Quotes and Prayers by Dennis Ference
It is for us
to live each moment
completely,
though we know the truth
that one day we all must die.© 2018 Dennis Ference
Merging Traffic 
“And as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment”
Hebrews 9:27
“The practical bearings of this appointment to die. It teaches us our highest work in this life. We live that we may prepare to die. There are four lines of preparation.
(1) There is the discipline of resignation. It may seem hard to part with so many friends, so many interests, so much work, so many hopes, so many enthusiasms. But there is no help for it, and it is better, for our own sakes, and still more for the honour of our God, that we should bow to the inevitable.
(2) There is the discipline of repentance.
(3) There is the training of prayer — I should speak more accurately — of worship. When we pray, really shutting out the things and thoughts of time, cleansing the inner temple of the soul; when we behold the realities over which death has no power, the realities which have no relation to time — the everlasting throne, the unceasing intercession — we are not only insensibly suffused with the light which streams down from that other world; we learn here upon earth how to behave ourselves in that majestic presence; we learn the manners of another climate, the habits of another society, before our time. And this worship is a training for death…”
C. Liddon
Thanks for that input.