Death

So u kno that Resolved conference thing that alvina went to, well she told me to listen to the sermons... all 12 of them... online... today while i was packing i listened to the first one. it was about death. it was pretty good. the main point that i got out of it, is that until we face our death and are not afraid of it, we cannot live the way God wants us to. So pretty much, You cannot truly live, until you have died. funny thing, is that ive been talkin about stuff like this with my school friends recently. in Fight club, the author also says the same thing. Tyler durdin puts the main character in a life-death situation and tells him to let go and let the car crash. Accept the fact that everyone is going to die. "on along enough time-scale, everyone's survival rate drops to zero" only after you die, can u live.
This makes sense, because only after we face death, stare it in the face, do the unimportant things in life really become unimportant. material comforts, luxuries, deserts, fancy crap become unimportant. The truly important things will be God's kingdom. when facing death, people dont think "oh sht, i should bought that purse". instead they think "heaven or hell. i want mommy." In the end, God is what truly matters. so ya, i kno we pride ourselves with having breeched death on multiple occasions with Joe and stuff, but take a second to think about how to apply the philosophy of this to our lives. To die rite now, so that we can live for God.

-Ivan