Comments on: Alpha and Omega

By: Michele Santi

Michele Santi — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:41:58 +0000

Thank you Philip. I too am mourning the loss of Joannie, as well as another friend taken this year from a choking incident. It is a reminder that the line between life and death can be very thin. I am comforted by the last sentence from pastor Jim… we were born to leave this place we call home and be with our Father in heaven.

By: Cheryl Johnson

Cheryl Johnson — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:24:50 +0000

In reply to Lynn Turnbull. I also share the same, as a retired hospice nurse. The healing and recovery is taking a lifetime so far. But I could not have done anything but what the Lord compelled me to, that being to serve Him in caring for the sick and dying.

By: Penny Thome

Penny Thome — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 22:56:48 +0000

Yep.

By: John Benson

John Benson — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 21:11:42 +0000

In a cemetery in Maine, there is a most remarkable headstone, topped with the single word RESURRECTION all in capital letters, followed by “To Immortality in Spotless Beauty, with all other Bodily Perfections, after the fashion of Christs Glorious Body, is expected for the Sub adjacent Dust of Lucy Moodey, who was born & died, July the 6, 1706. Thus Birth, Spousals to Christ, Death, Coronation All in One Day, may have their Celebration.

By: Lynn Turnbull

Lynn Turnbull — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:12:32 +0000

As a retired hospice nurse i too have experience these tense .moments in one’s life. Birth and death are sacred moments for modern medicine with all its science cannot stop either one successfully. Oyr creator is truly ever present, every loving, always in control.

By: Stephen Kuper

Stephen Kuper — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 12:51:28 +0000

Beautiful. Rich. Insightful.
Thank you

By: Vicki

Vicki — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 02:03:02 +0000

Beautiful. Life comes in fresh and new like morning dew, and goes out somewhat stale and dry…… but what the old has that the new doesn’t is SO MUCH life history! Years and years and years of specific and different experiences that are unique to that individual and are full of information that is priceless and full with wonder and teaching. A new life is empty of that and ready to have input- and the input is so very much more important than any parent usually ascribes to it……. And old life is full and ready to teach those around it and yet the younger are not eager to learn- to them it appears stale and dry and sometimes worthless. How sad that much of humanity can’t see the pricelessness and worth of the elderly as they see the pricelessness and joy of the newborn.

By: Sandra Lineweaver

Sandra Lineweaver — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:08:01 +0000

This was beautiful. Thank you

By: Margaret Thorpe

Margaret Thorpe — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:28:37 +0000

As a hospital pastoral carer, I see more of the leaving of this earth. Each death reflects (I believe) the life of the one on their final journey. All struggle in some way : some greet the one they see as they leave their physical body, others seem to just give in and slide away. Yet others struggle to their last breath, seemingly not ready yet. For those of us witnessing the moment it is a reminder to consider- how do I want to live, how do I want to be remembered.

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:59:04 +0000

Thank you for your wise and empathetic words. As I near my 89 B’day, I spend time remembering and sharing my memories and looking toward the mystery of death. Your words are wise and so very beautiful. I have been at births and at deaths of beloveds and your words are spot on.