Preparing for the Inevitable

Author: Daniel Whyte III

This podcast will help you get ready to face the inevitable unpleasant things that will happen in your life -- things like trouble, suffering, sickness, and death -- the death of people you love and your own death. Trouble, suffering, and death are common threads that run throughout all of humanity. They are inescapable. You will never meet a person who has not, is not, or will not experience these terrible things in life. Yet, we attempt to hide from these inevitabilities, to pretend they dont exist or that they wont happen to us. Our world is filled with news of people dying, children suffering, entire government systems and organizations enduring trouble and turmoil, but we tend to see these as things that only happen to "other people" and never to us. Trouble, suffering, and death come equally to all people, of all races, from every socio-economic status, of every religion, in every country of the world. It makes us all equal. This podcast will show you how to accept these realities of life, and not just cope, but face trouble, suffering, and death in your own life and in the world with confidence, courage, class, and most of all, with faith, hope, and charity.
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The Spirituality of Dying, Part 6
Sunday, 7 August, 2016

The Bible says in John 5:24-26: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.” The featured quote for this episode is from Edgar Allan Poe. He said, "Even in the grave, all is not lost." Our topic for today is titled "The Spirituality of Dying, Part 6" from the book, "The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come" by Rob Moll. --- A Spiritual Reality Those steps recommended by the Christian art of dying — expressing willingness to die, showing belief in Jesus, offering final thoughts and encouragements to family and friends, giving hope in the life to come — do more than create a peaceful and welcoming environment for the dying person. These actions prepare the spirit. Repeated and intimate experience with the dying, over the course of centuries, taught Christians the necessary path to dying well. While everyone is different and these steps may not look alike from person to person, the general outline is the same. And Christian wisdom teaches that it works to bring a dying person on the right path from mortality to immortality. ...