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...convinced that in some cases we aren't so much prolonging life, but prolonging death. I'm thankful, however for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime; I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them. And I believe God has given them to us, because He loves us and wants what is best for us, both in this life and the next. But, death is a reality common to us all, and for me as a Christian it isn't something to be feared, because I know what lies...
...Bible says that one reason God gave the Bible to us is so we could have comfort and hope in the face of life's trials-and I've discovered this in an even greater way since Ruth's death. It would be hard for me to single out any one passage of Scripture, I suppose, but I find myself returning repeatedly to some of the familiar verses that speak of eternity and our hope of Heaven-passages like Psalm 23, or the first few verses of Revelation 21. My mind often turns also to Jesus' words in John...
...cope is by thanking God every day for the years we had together. They are over now-but God was good in giving us to each other, and I want to be grateful for those memories and not suppress them. Recently I pulled out some of my favorite pictures of Ruth-several going back many years-and put them on my desk, just to remind me of this...
...Most of all, I take comfort in the Word of God, and in the hope we can have of eternal life in Heaven because of Christ's death and resurrection for us. I've preached this message almost all my life, and it means more to me now than ever before...
...Bergman's men (and especially his women) might rage against the prevailing gloom; Antonioni's people (and especially his men) sink into it. Their problems are hard to define, and beyond salvation by God, psychoanalysis or madness. They don't cry; they barely have enough energy to shrug. Are they alive at all, or the reduction of humanity to zombies? Long before George Romero, and in chic Rome instead of a Pittsburgh cemetery, Antonioni filmed his own Night of the Living Dead...