Death is a solemn thing

Last night (19 June 2015), I watched my sister-in-law take her last breath. It was a very solemn moment, and even beyond the feeling of grief at our loss and the feeling of relief at the end of her suffering, I could not help thinking about the impressiveness of what I had just seen. Knowing from the Scriptures what was happening as we watched, I knew that I had just witnessed the moment when her soul and spirit were severed from that mysterious connection with her body. Human knowledge has not and no doubt never will plumb the depths of the subject, but it is a weighty thing to think about.