COMING TOGETHER-6

I've been thinking about life. It's not fair to end life in breakdown. Life should end in summation and celebration, it should be an exoneration not a punishment. But I have no say in the matter.

My mother's body is not living, it is ceasing. Slowly but it is ceasing. Her mind is hanging in there, gradually eroding like pebbles falling from a shore, but what of her life?

I cannot judge. I know some very good things about her and some not so good things, but how are they balanced? Or are they balanced? Maybe they are summarized some other way. Maybe the good acts are seen, the flawed ones are just not, in the debris of life.

When it comes to a life already lived, how do you judge and to what do you judge? Living it over would be a strange punishment, it would be bizarre. So how do you judge a life?

You could only judge a life by a life. I can't say my mother has measured up to Jesus, but maybe it's a matter of what my mother did with what God gave you. Maybe that's the only criterrion.

I hope so. I'm next.