And it’s in that process that we discover something about death, judgement, heaven and hell, sure enough.
Death because of course that’s what we’re all afraid of. And this particular message of the Gospel in Advent tells us that death is what you have to go through in order for truth to live in you, the death of all those things that you want to use to keep you safe. And the way you react to that apparently not terribly good news, the way you react to that with patience, with protest, with joy, with terror, that’s judgement. That’s what decides the kind of person you're going to be. And if by some extraordinary miracle of love, trust, and grace you're able to face death and step into it and beyond it for the sake of the truth, that’s heaven. And if you’re stuck in a constant unwillingness to face your death and the truth that lies beyond it, that’s hell. The four last things? Well yes, but four last things that are happening right now, right here, in you and in me, pretty well every moment.
Death because of course that’s what we’re all afraid of. And this particular message of the Gospel in Advent tells us that death is what you have to go through in order for truth to live in you, the death of all those things that you want to use to keep you safe. And the way you react to that apparently not terribly good news, the way you react to that with patience, with protest, with joy, with terror, that’s judgement. That’s what decides the kind of person you're going to be. And if by some extraordinary miracle of love, trust, and grace you're able to face death and step into it and beyond it for the sake of the truth, that’s heaven. And if you’re stuck in a constant unwillingness to face your death and the truth that lies beyond it, that’s hell. The four last things? Well yes, but four last things that are happening right now, right here, in you and in me, pretty well every moment.
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