“She knew she was dying and she sorted and decluttered and let go of so much.”
My sister-in-law’s voice on the other end of the phone this week reflects on my mother-in-law’s final years. In her last season of leukemia, she had released her ties to earth, gave away all the souvenirs from her sojourn. She was ready for the Home soaring.
The practice of dying means we die before we die. While we still live, we die to this world and all its glitter, all its control. Like Paul, we say...
“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live”
(Gal. 2:20).
What sway can death have over an already dead person? We trump the fear of dying by dying now with Christ. And in practicing dying, we do what dying people do: let go of all the stuff, all that encumbers, weighs us down.
Clutter in the closets,
resentment in the recesses,
pain in the past.
On our last flight out, we check no luggage.
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