Saturday, November 2, 2019

All Souls’ Day … so what is a soul anyway?

Morning: Psalms 42, 46; Romans 8:14-19, 31-39
Evening: Psalms 116, 121; John 14:1-6

Rhyl, where my mother lives in Wales, has an all-weather Shannon class waterjet-driven lifeboat ( https://rnli.org/what-we-do/lifeboats-and-stations/our-lifeboat-fleet/shannon-class-lifeboat ); it races at 50 km/h to save people in distress.  Amazing boat!  More importantly, in British lifeboat stations, plaques record brave rescues; if sailors or lifeboatmen perish, a memorial might read: “… with the loss of 5 souls”.  A soul is a human life.  All Souls’ Day is for remembering life-giving human beings (like lifeboatmen, or like my sister-in-law Penny, who died 2 years ago today). Jesus says his way is the way to life for human beings, the life-giving truth we need.

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