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Home > Sacraments > Eucharist > Communion reflections > 21 11 2004 - Death Harvest Time of the Spirit |
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Death - harvest
time of the spirit On an autumn day I took up a handful of grain and let it slip slowly through my fingers. At harvest time the essence is revealed. The straw and the chaff are set aside. They have done their job. The grain alone matters - sacks of pure gold So it is when a person dies. The essence of that person is revealed. At the moment of death a person's character stands out. Happy for the person if he has forged it well over the years. Then it will not be the great achievements that will matter; not how much money or possessions a person has amassed. These, like the straw and the chaff, will be left behind. It is what he has made of himself that will matter. Death can take away from us what we have, but it cannot rob us of what we are. We are children of our Heavenly Father, and coheirs with Jesus to the Kingdom of heaven. |
