Do you love them or hate them? Do you hate to see the years taking their toll or do you delight in your survival? I have never worried about anyone knowing my age. I am 70 and rapidly approaching 71. With age comes the added certainty of death, though that can happen at any age. As a child I was very worried about the thought of death, when I was three a little girl who lived near me and was two, died after an accident. As I have grown older I have been less worried about death and most older people will say the same. How strange is that? Dying tends to bother us rather than being dead. I believe Jesus will take me to live with Him, what could be more wonderful. I think dying might be something like being born. The birth process is a traumatic time for the baby. So there is trepidation that dying might be the same. When a baby is born it soon knows the comfort of its mother's arms, when the believer dies he enters into the joy of His Lord.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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