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I saw a pretty terrible accident last weekend while driving down to LA on the 5. One car was completely demolished and the parts were laid out all over side of the freeway. I don't remember how the other car looked but I remember driving by the scene slowly and for some reason I felt nervous. I think it was because I didn't want to see a dead body laying on the highway. Even blood would've been too much for me. Police officers and the drivers from the accident were outside of their cars, either talking or waiting, probably both. What if someone actually died from the accident? Nothing new, car accidents happen daily. But, this is one body. More importantly, this is one soul. This is one soul that is claimed by either heaven or hell. Death doesn't seem like too big of a deal sometimes because of how common it is in our society. At the VA hospital there was an old man who was given a 14% chance to live (I don't know how the residents get this statistic). But he was just another case to the doctors, one weak heart of out many others. Death is not exactly like that looming shadow we seem to characterize it as sometimes, it's more like that sign that pass by everyday while driving. It's just there, we don't look at it much but we know it's there. And I don't think about it much, but death means a person is going to spend eternity either in place or another. And eternity seems to be the governing variable/principle/x because without "eternity" death seems to lose much meaning. Eternity is forever. An unquantifiable amount of time for one person to be in a place. We can't waste time thinking about all the lost souls in this world, but just thinking about one should be enough for us to toss aside our fears, insecurities, and pride to do what God asks. But He is in control and that gives me much hope.







I am going camping on Friday!!