Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Maylan Schurch
Friday, September 20, 2024
About this time of year, Shelley and I keep an alert but genial eye on the front yards of those of our neighbors we expect will eventually burst forth in some kind of Halloween display. It may be our imagination, but it seems that people are a bit tardy this year, for whatever reason.
Thursday morning of this week, I discovered that someone has finally broken the ice, employing this disconcerting skeleton rising portentously from its grave.
Resurrection, I thought, as I snapped this photo.
But not the real resurrection, of course. A couple of Sundays into October, I will be presiding at a memorial service for a 102-year-old woman. She had been raised Seventh-day Adventist, and Shelley and I had become acquainted with her because she’d asked the chaplain at her care center to reach out to a local Adventist pastor for a visit.
Shelley and I made several visits there, and found her delightful. But as time went along, she began to fade, and finally she passed to her rest. Her son asked me to do his mom’s service in a way that I think she might appreciate. So I know exactly what to do: I will speak about her resurrection at Jesus’ return, in which she firmly believed.
I’ll read texts like this:
Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 1 Corinthians 15:51 – 54 NKJV
Comforting words, aren’t they?
For more Bible facts about the resurrection, including how to get ready for it, click the link just below:
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/topics/resurrection