What is dying

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A ship sails and I stand watching till she fades on the horizon and someone

at my side says She is gone

Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all. She is just as large now as

when I last saw her. Her diminished size and total loss from my sight is in

me, not in her.

And just at the moment when someone at my side says she is gone there are

others who are watching her coming over their horizon and other voices take

up a glad shout There she comes!

That is what dying is. An horizon and just the limit of our sight.

Lift us up, Oh Lord, that we may see further

 

Bishop Brent

 

 

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