Death Wakens Awareness....To Life/Love

It is a season of mourning in our family... Now we bid fond earthly farewellto James's (my husband's) beloved 93 year old mother,who passed away on Friday.(obituary )How we will miss her,but how we rejoice that she is released from herweary and worn out body. Dear mother, No more precious shared lunches and coffees and chats... or (Cake decorating credit goes to my sister-in-law) or being greeted by your sweet, welcoming smilefrom your chair where you delighted in watching birdsand people come and go.No more hardships for you, dear mother!Your chair is empty... Once again death rouses awareness... Death, is a Certain Doorway through which all will disappearA sacred, solemn, Supreme InevitabilityAnd when its Immutable Must summons one near and dearIt tunes Thought to Time's Holy Lease hinged to eternity Death wakens re-awareness to the gift of Here and NowIt spotlights love's track-record forged by what we do and sayAnd brings us boldly face to face with ourselves, somehowAnd Precious Opportunity afforded in Today Death stirs in us a sense of so much more than meets the eyeThe Part no lens can captivate, and knowledge cannot quell It bids us ponder somberly love's breath-by-breath replyTo He who gave himself to break the curse of death and hell Death rouses us to look at life and its impending goalIt begs for answers to questions none should flee or ignore   'What doth it profit us to gain the world and lose our soul?And who can carry anything through death's leveling Door? Death wakens fresh awareness to the preciousness of 'us' And how it is a privilege to live to give and shareEach others joys and sorrows;  then, rather than fret and fussOr point accusing fingers, to fold them in thankful prayer © Janet Martin 1 Cor.15:53-58 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption,and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55 “O[] Death, where is your sting?O Hades, where is your victory?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.