Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star....
(William Wordsworth “”Intimations of Immortality”)
I am at that age when younger people ask me “Why do you care about this issue, it will not be decided or resolved until long after you are dead?” I answer very simply “Because a concern for this issue has been placed upon my heart.” I cannot say for certain precisely the process by which my consciousness takes some ownership of this issue. I only know that it does so and that I am absolutely certain that such concern is valid and right, however seemingly improper. (As a believer, I say that God has placed this concern upon my heart.) It is a signal trait of mankind–this desire to connect and contribute to a future in which one will not personally participate. It is one of the more beautiful traits of mankind and testifies to persistent intimations of eternity.
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