There is no Facebook, no email, no cell phone service, in the life to come. But somehow we are still in communion with those who have gone before us.
Jack Lemmon, the actor, once said “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
The older I get, the more I realize how true that is. I have relationships with many people whose life on planet earth has ended. They are different, and often seem distant, but not gone.
The irony of course is that we are ones who are most distant, most disconnected. We think of the dead as ephemeral, when actually the opposite is true. We are the ones who are just watching the previews, waiting for the coming attraction.
Those who have gone on before are the ones who have begun a life in perfect communion with Christ.
“All other benefits of his passion.” 1979 Book of Common Prayer, pg. 335
Could one of those other benefits be the communion of saints?
Easter is coming! Hallelujah!
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