I was talking at work today with a friend who just found out that a guy she grew up with was killed in a car accident this weekend.  This combined with Dan’s first Sunday back after his dad’s passing, I’ve been thinking a lot again about the eternal dance of life and death and faith.  The more I think of it the less scary and confusing it becomes.  I know that must sound incredibly strange to read so let me try to explain.  As I’ve written about before, when I read the first question and answer from the Heidelberg Catechism I can’t help but feel at peace with the reality of my mortality.  It is strange sometimes to realize that at any given moment, any number of completely random events can occur that can end life, car crashes, random shootings, freak heart attacks, and yet, the knowledge God has a purpose for my life and until that purpose is fulfilled, not a hair on my head will come to harm, how powerful!  At the same time, acknowledging the broken state of our human nature frees us from the fear of death when it does one day come.  When we come to accept we can never achieve perfection in this lifetime or state, how beautiful it becomes when we are made complete in the presence of our loving Savior!