And The Band Played On

          You are in a small room, it is closing in on you and the darkness makes it feel even smaller. Then you see a small gleam of light protruding through a little hole in the wall. How do you feel? Hopeful? Confused? Scared? All of the above? Well, according to a Psych survey, those are the exact feelings some have about departing earth. It is true that death is a scary, confusing, phenomenon. We have yet to wrap our minds around the possibility of the hue ebbing out of our skin and those eyes no longer batting. Yet, this doesn't change the fact that it happens to everyone and it shouldn't keep us from living our lives to the fullest--carpe diem my friends!  We must continue to play on until we hear that trumpet sound and are caught up with our maker and taken home. For those of  us who will go before the rapture, our trumpet would have already sounded. Death envelopes you like a shroud, you close  your eyes in eternal sleep. But wait! This is not the end! You wake up on the other side in a new, beautiful, spotless body. That small glimmer of light  that peeked through the wall now grows as you come face to face with your maker--with eternal bliss. While those you left behind are crying and wailing, tearing their hair out and covering themselves in sand..you are fine. All of your tears have dried out, all the heartache that mortality brought ceased to exist the moment you got passed those pearly gates and took your first step onto that gold-lined street.
          If we know we have a better life ahead, death is simply a chariot ushering us into that more-superior world.  The fragility of life makes it even more valuable--even more worth while. The fact that the person you are having such a heated conversation with could cease to exist in  a matter of minutes, makes life on earth something to enjoy in all of its shortness. Life is short but wide.. let's not waste it and let's live it with the hope that there is a wonderful eternity awaiting us. That truth is our light at the end of the tunnel.

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day..."
-The Apostle Paul

In the movie Titanic, the band continued to play even though that would be its last song.
 It serenaded the fading ship with its music.