The Fragility of Life

I wrote this morning that Carrie Fisher was in intensive care.  She passed away at about noon today our time here.  I would suggest that 2016 was brutal on celebrities and famous people.  If anything would demonstrate how fragile life really is, I would suggest that this past year is proof that there is no such thing as immortality.  I wouldn’t suggest that my Angels made me immortal.  What they did was give me a task to perform until the Messiah comes.  But after He comes, I don’t know what is to become of me.  I don’t sit around and worry about it.  I told one of my daughters-in-law this evening that I thought about buying a new suit, but I said that my only reason for buying one would to be buried in it. 

But as to whether I worry another heart attack would kill me or that I would die from some other cause isn’t something I worry about.  I could suggest that I HAVE to be here until the Messiah comes.  It’s not that I don’t have a choice in the matter, but the fact is, I don’t.  I COULD experience the most excruciating pain a person can experience, but yet I won’t die.  But the fact is, this is more of a concern of mine than dying.  In the past five years, I have had two brushes with death.  My thinking now is that I don’t know what Satan is going to try to me to succeed in taking my life.  My body is a battlefield between Satan and God.  Satan wants me dead and God wants to be sure I live. 

But the fact is everyone dies.  I understand this myself.  Life is fragile.  Living with pain is something some people have to endure.  I would insist that we can’t avoid pain except in death.  I don’t really know how painful dying is.  I only know the pain of living.  I would say this is true of all of us.  NO one escapes living in some pain at some point in our lives.  I don’t need to belabor the point this evening.  My point in all of this is that no matter what we face in life we have no choice but let God take our lives.  No one is allowed by God to take his or her own life, nor are we allowed by God to take of the life of ANY other.  When we live in Peace, we die in Peace.  NO matter how we die, when we live in Peace, our death is Peace.  It means all the battles with this world are over and we have won.  I am Brother Ralphie writing for my Angels from The Angels of Life Institute.  Peace. Brother Ralphie works from his study for the promotion of Peaceful living and inner Peace with God. He calls this the “Sanctity of Human Life Movement.”