“Slavery” is pertinent to a life unavoidably ending in death. Those who are still young are least aware of what life ultimately holds. They think they have time! Watching her twenty-year-old grandchildren, my wife’s 99-year-old mother (daily undergoing the rigors of old age) uttered: “somebody needs to tell them!”

Tell them? Really? Oblivious, they would merely have brushed it off as an unpleasant thought—a remote and distant reality, “I know, but that’s a long way off. Why worry about it now?” And I can see their point. Life can be a wonderful thing. The chance to live all that can be experienced—to be able to see, hear, feel, taste and smell the feast that is set before us offers a sensual distraction most live their lives for. It’s what happiness seems to be all about. Is it any wonder that the notion of God and a life hereafter get shoved into the background?

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