Alētheia

     It’s a beautiful day today. The sky is clear, the trees are shedding their leaves as they do with the onset of the season and with it comes the coolness of fall. God’s creation is truly beautiful and amazing. I want to talk for a few minutes about something no one wants to think about, much less talk about. That is… death. In particular your own death. Death comes at some point to all living things be it plant or animal. One day, I will die. One day you will die. It is a door which every single person, regardless of wealth, or status, or power  absolutely must walk through.  Death does not care if you are rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, a star athlete or a fan in the stands. It doesn’t care if you are black, white or brown. It doesn’t care if you are from America, Ethiopia, Vietnam or Bora Bora. Death is truly the “Great Equalizer.” Life has a 100% mortality rate. We can delay death with medicine and machines, we can ignore the thought of it in our daily l...