The title of this blog is actually the start of the text message that I sent to my friends and family from the back of an ambulance on Christmas Eve. I was reminded of the scene in the movie where Babs, one of the chickens, in a quirky English accent, declared, ‘Ooh, me life flashed [...]
‘If dogs don’t go to heaven, when I die I want to go wherever they went.’ Will Rogers A number of years ago my two girls came home with a notice that they had found attached to one of the lamp posts in our neighborhood. Its headline read – ‘Family Wanted’. For years my children [...]
I recently purchased a book at the Brisbane airport to accompany me on my journey. The book was called by Mitch Albom. I had read some of his other material and enjoyed his take on dealing with death – as he always approached it in a warm and heart rendering manner. In reading his latest [...]
When my children were younger we had guinea pigs. One of the newborn pigs died, and as a family we gathered around the grave that I’d prepared in our back garden, and while praying a prayer out loud I placed the limp body on the ground and began to cover it with dirt. At that [...]
Words in the mouth of the wise are as seeds, that if planted correctly will yield bountiful crops in those same lives in the next one, two, five or even ten years. But the words of the unwise will do exactly the same. I have actually overheard two particular people who have said such things [...]
Ian, my brother in law, you have left this earth and gone to heaven just this past week at the young age of only 50. Alone you were when you died, but we know that you had a welcome party waiting for you and now you reside with a company of people who love you dearly. Flawed, like all [...]
Death. Invader of life. Destroyer of hope. Interrupter of youth. Usurper of health. So when considering the insidious character named death, we can often be overtaken with a sense of despair and a sense of defeat. And yet when we consider it in the light of the resurrection, we suddenly realize that ‘absent from the [...]
Life is full of significant moments. This one I am going to share with you was very significant. I wrote the following email to my mother today as I recounted that moment many years ago: Hi Mum At our Connect Group the other night, which we lead – about 20 adults from our church meet [...]
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