CELEBRATION OF LIFE: Meditations

This weekend I attended an inspirational and hope-filled celebration of life. Because of Connor’s short life, I recalled the ending to Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations:

“Mortal man, you have lived as a citizen in this great city. What matter if that life is five or 50 years? The laws of the city apply equally to all. So what is there to fear in your dismissal from the city? This is no tyrant or corrupt judge who dismisses you, but the very same nature that brought you in.

“It is like the officer who engaged a comic actor dismissing him from the stage. ‘But I have not played my five acts only three.’

“True, but in life three acts can be the whole play. Completion is determined by that being who caused your first composition and now your dissolution. You have no part in either causation. Then go in peace. The God who let you go is at peace with you.”

It requires no thought on our part how we got on this planet, it’s getting off with style and grace. Conner achieved that by living a Christ-filled life.

— Meditations: Book 12:36 Marcus Aurelius

DICK SHELDON

Coeur d’Alene