The other night, my roommates and I sat
down to watch a movie called “Now Is Good”, which is a heart-wrenchingly
wonderful movie. The premise of the movie is about a girl who is dying from
leukemia and has made a list of things she wants to do before she dies.
By the end of the film we are all crying
our eyes out as this character is fading into her imminent death. The movie
shows her last moments with her family and goes out with a monologue about
Moments. This monologue explains that moments are all we have and we must take
each and every moment to the fullest.
While I was watching the film, I just got
sad. There was no hope in her death. To her and her family, it was the end, the
end of her existence, her presence, and her being.
I have been fortunate in my life that every
person who I have known to have passed on was a believer of Jesus Christ. So
while their passing has been hard and sad, there has always been an air of hope
during their funerals, because we believe in the Christian faith that after
death we go on to live out eternity in Heaven with Jesus. The hope we find in
death is that we will indeed be reunited with our loved ones and also see our
Savior face to face.
In watching “Now Is Good” it got me to
thinking about what it would be like to not have the hope that knowing Christ
has given me. How afraid of death I would be, how much more difficult it would
be to see my loved ones pass on, how hard it would be to find hope in life.
Maybe my thoughts are extremely biased
because I’ve only known what life is through a Christian perspective. But for
me, being a Christian makes now more good than ever. Now is good to live, now
is good speak out for my faith, now is good for Jesus to come, now is good for
me to die.
I’m not saying I want to die now, but it
would be okay if I did. I’d be okay with it because I find hope in my death.
When I die, I will meet Jesus face to face, I’ll get to be reunited with my
Great Grandparents, My best friend’s mom, and many others who have gone on
before me.
I love the line from Peter Pan, “to die
would be an awfully big adventure”, and a big adventure it will be. Until then,
Now is good.
