On a reverse-recommendation from an acquaintance, I am watching a series called The End. It deals with various people who are dying and/or want to. The woman who told me about the show was appalled as she felt that it encouraged people to commit suicide. She also thought that all the talk about death would “normalize” it and cause people to feel it was okay. Of course, I felt the urge to see it! I find it to be more about life than death. There is enough black humor to amuse me and enough love to inspire me. This show has caused me to think deeply about issues surrounding our life choices. There is a woman who feels guilty because she’s happy her philandering, preacher husband died. There’s the teenager who has attempted suicide because others at school ostracize her. I am reminded of friends and neighbors who are unhappy and are having trouble finding reasons to live. Life is good, even when it doesn’t feel that way. Finding joy in the small things brings happiness to the whole, don’t you think?
“⁶Life and death, light and darkness, knowledge and perception, are irreconcilable. To believe that they can be reconciled is to believe that God and His Son can not. Only the oneness of knowledge is free of conflict. Your Kingdom is not of this world because it was given you from beyond this world. Only in this world is the idea of an authority problem meaningful. The world is not left by death but by truth, and truth can be known by all those for whom the Kingdom was created, and for whom it waits.” A Course in Miracles T-3.VII.6:6-11
“We know that all will be changed ‘in the twinkling of an eye,’ when the last trump shall sound, but this last call of wisdom cannot come til mortals have already yielded to each lesser call in the growth of Christian character. Mortals need not fancy that belief in the experience of death will awaken them to glorified being.” Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 291:5
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