Something to remember on All Hallows Eve, All Saints Day tomorrow (All Souls the next), and each day thereafter, about final and eternal matters, in the midst of all the hype about elections:
It is right, therefore, that we not just be called Christians, but that we actually be Christians....
Seeing that all things have an end, two things together lie before us, life and death, and everyone will go to his own place.
For just as there are two coinages, the one of God and the other of the world, and each of them has its own stamp impressed upon it, so the unbelievers bear the stamp of this world, but the faithful in love bear the stamp of God the Father through Jesus Christ, whose life is not in us unless we voluntarily choose to die into his suffering.
--Ignatius of Antioch, bishop, martyred as a Christian in Rome, under the Emperor Trajan (AD 98-117), from his Letter to the Magnesians 4,5
Spend wisely, for we will all have to give personal account to the One who fashioned us and brought us into being.
I wish you had enabled comments on the next post - that was an awesome response editorial. But I can understand why you might not want to.
Posted by: c matt | November 03, 2008 at 03:47 PM