On Life and Death

Dear friend,

I'm here in the sun room in a Saturday afternoon and life seems to make a pause for me to give me the chance to write to you.

It is a perfect early afternoon... If you can see one in such an imperfect world we inherited.

There still beauty to behold despise the curse impose on this earth. As an act of Grace and Mercy, God brought some of that beauty to my own backyard for me to enjoy. How about that?

The sun awoke the day and the birds joined in to have a peek at what nature have to offer for breakfast today. After yesterday's rain the grass is beaming with a brand new green, shining bright and bold at the touch of the sun. Even the weeds dared to bloom into shy flowers almost like challenging their own standards that they do have something to amaze us as well.

Like a sign of hope our two birdhouses have been occupied and there are reasons to believe that there is a truce between man and nature to cohabit and live together. A chickadee pioneered the way for a bluebird and we just watch and wait ...

I visited my plants in the morning and they faithfully remain in the pots where I put them but even when they are silent, they are talking all over and I could not agree with them more! I happen to believe that God not only created the world but He is also the sustainer and they cannot be silent so they shout that He did it!

I wonder why man's existence was initiated in the garden, were every breathing thing honor Him with abandon and we, proudly in sin said: NO !

I imagine Eden full of wonders and mysteries like God Himself so, how could that happened? Why?

I never ceases to amaze me how out of a seed that dies in the darkness beneath the soil, comes out a tiny leaf that, at due time will bloom, flourish and die again and, as a last of a survival attempts gives birth to more seeds to perpetuate the cycle of life:

Something have to die so, life would be possible.

Easter is a mayor mystery of life and death.

Paul said in the book of Romans chapter six verse ten:

For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And concludes the chapter in verse twenty three...

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Do you believe Him ? I do.

In amazement,

Rain in the Mirror