Thinking Anew: A powerful reminder of the story of our lives

'I believe and am inclined to say that life does not end at the grave; I hope and pray that life everlasting lies beyond'Has it ever struck you how much we are the children of our parents? How, as we get on in life, we find ourselves doing many of the things they did, even if, in our younger years, we dismissed what they did as old-fashioned?

As an aside, I often wonder, were we any more Christian back then than we are now? I doubt it. And I, for one, would not like to return to those days. It was a time when the priest who said the quickest Mass was the most popular in the parish. Wasn’t that weird?Five ways Ireland can improve to stay ahead of the Six Nations packI recall my mother, by accident, breaking the fast and asking the priest if it would be okay to receive Communion at the Holy Thursday Mass. He said no, she couldn’t.

No matter how much we try to airbrush them out of our lives, pain, suffering and death are intrinsic to what it means to be alive. We witness agony in the media on a daily basis. It’s so awful that we have to turn away from it. We can do that at the press of a button. Some say it’s part of life and it ends at the grave. I’m inclined to say, no – there’s more to us than this fragility and brokenness. Is that type of thinking a consolation prize that offers me security? I hope not. I believe and am inclined to say life does not end at the grave. What lies beyond, I have no idea. I hope and pray it is life everlasting.

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