TOPIC INDEXDeath and Dying (25)

  1. Songs are Musical Time Machines

    book
    07/29/14
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The psalmist writes that our earthly lives last “seventy years, or eighty, if we have the strength.” As if proving the poet right, and showing the world that she did have that kind of strength, Alvena fought on to her eightieth year.

  2. Please Don’t Say These Six Things at My Funeral

    book
    07/11/14
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Because I do care now, and will care even after I’m with the Lord, here are some things I hope and pray are not said at my funeral. I care about those who will be there, about what they will hear.

  3. Anniversary of a Dead Marriage: The Painful Lessons of Divorce

    book
    06/27/14
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Every year, when this day rolls around, I turn over the stones of remembrance that litter my mind, to see what lurks beneath.

  4. Go, Old Man, and Sin No More

    book
    06/20/14
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    My life will be unwritten, erased by the hand of mortality. And fool that I am, I stand here threatening to snuff out the life of a woman caught in the act which I have acted out in my heart with a thousand women.

  5. What Would You Want for Your Last Meal?

    book
    04/12/14
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I am lord of all I eat. I lord it over meat, potatoes, pecan pie. I make those foods serve my body, transforming them into me. But it is not so with the meal of Jesus.

  6. What is That in My Casket?

    book
    04/09/14
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    What we confess concerning a corpse confesses much about how deep, or how shallow, is our understanding of the importance of the incarnation of Jesus, his death, and his (as well as our own) resurrection.

  7. Adam's First Sunset: When All You’ve Known Sinks Away

    book
    03/12/14
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    For who of us, at some point in our lives, has not watched with horror and grief as our own “sun” vanishes? You stand around a rectangular depression in the ground to watch a box of wood that cradles your beloved slowly lowered into the dark earth.

  8. Look Who I Found in the Grave

    book
    02/21/14
    5 mins
    By Chad Bird
    God must kill me. He’s got to slay me, put me six feet under, and shovel dirt atop my corpse. Then, it’s like, “Hey, I finally understand! You’re God and I’m not.

  9. Tripping Helen Keller

    book
    02/19/14
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Why, given all the things we wish God had told us, but didn’t, does he “waste our time” by stating the patently obvious? Was there, in Moses’ day, an outbreak of violence against the disabled?

  10. Clothing for the Naked Eye: Seeing Things as They Really Are

    book
    01/21/14
    15 mins
    By Chad Bird
    A cemetery is a hard place to confess because the cemetery itself seems to confess, “You, O mortal, have lost.”

  11. Drinking with the Dead: Country Music and the Communion of Saints

    book
    12/10/13
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The details vary, of course, but we too struggle to repair the heart broken by the tragic death of someone we love. We're dazed, angry, speechless.

  12. Dying to Pray

    book
    10/25/13
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The reason is much simpler than that: to learn to pray, you must first die. The language of prayer is taught in the school of death.
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