Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
~ Winston Churchill

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

If we are well prepared

Death seems to be holding a prominent place in my thoughts lately. A cousin's 14-yo daughter died last week & her funeral was Saturday. Two weeks ago a young man who was 25, the same age as Don-Mike, & married to a girl from our ward died, leaving his wife with 2 small children, one a baby 2 months old. Then a man my age dropped over dead of a heart attack. His funeral was yesterday. One of today's thoughts is:
"If we are well prepared, death brings no terror. From an eternal perspective, death is premature only for those who are not prepared to meet God."
--Elder Russell M. Nelson, Ensign, May 2005, 18
My mom is afraid to die. I think the unknown is always terrifying. I know my cousin Floyd Monson confided in his nephew Paul that he was scared. Paul was surprised. If anyone would be prepared to meet God, he thought his Uncle Floyd would be. He asked Floyd about it & Floyd said, "I've never died before."

The 2nd thought is one we've had before. Elder Wirthlin admonishes our future depends on the decisions we make today.
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  1. Linda Weaver ClarkeMarch 19, 2011 at 8:27 AM

    Interesting subject, RaNae. My mother said to me the month she passed away, "I'm not afraid of death. Everything in my patriarchal blessing has been fulfilled. If the Lord takes me, I feel I'm prepared." Whoa! What a statement! We didn't realize, nor did she, that she was going to pass away. She was only 61 years old. Interesting the perspective people have about life! My mother-in-law was in her 80s when she passed away and she had said that she wasn't ready to die.

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  2. RaNaeApril 12, 2011 at 12:24 AM

    Wow, Linda, your mom wasn't very old. She was our age!

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