Posts with the tag “brian-doyle”

Some twenty years ago I had an “understanding” with God. It was that I would be dead in fifteen years. This had absolutely nothing to do with my desiring to die, and it was certainly not about constraining God to make sure that my expiry date was set. No, it had everything to do with a conviction that had been developing in me for years. I recognized how most every person that I knew (i.e., living persons not those who had died) were in denial about his or her death, rebelled at the thought, did not want to talk about it, feared it, and at root could not imagine that Death could be anything other than extermination, the voiding of all value. My “understanding” with God was that I would actively “accept” that I would die, so that He could teach me about Death, how He understood it.   Read More