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After Pentecost     Pentecost 25     Luke 20:27-38, particularly verses 27, 37-38

Life and Death (YC No 225)

The past was no different; the myst’ries remain;

We search for the answers; “Please, someone explain.”

Our life and our death are both riddles untold;

With science and knowledge few answers unfold.

Agreement is absent; beliefs can promote

An awesome hereafter, however remote;

But Sadducees said that they do not believe;

Of life after dying - they cannot conceive.

When Jesus replied from the scriptures he knew,

He took Hebrew teachings but said something new;

The God in their stories should always be read

As God of the living, not God of the dead.

We still have our questions; no certainty found;

We probe and we ponder but myst’ries abound;

If God is like Jesus, the one who is nigh,

In God we can live and then peacefully die.

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