Death is the separation of form and matter. Death, in a broader sense, that is all living and non-living things, is the turning point of a substance to become another substance. It will have another identity of itself. The former will be gone, and another will become. The it will become other it.
Death, in strict sense, is only for the living beings. Plants and animals when they die their form will vanish but the matter in which the form of the animals and plants are visible, will remain but will accept another form proper to it. To wit, imagine a glass of orange juice, if you will put water on in till it overflows and until the color and taste of orange juice will be wiped out, the glass of orange juice is no more but a glass of water is.
Today is Ash Wednesday. God is calling us to repentance. We should die in order to become another flesh and fresh again. We should die in order that God can enter into our life. We should deny ourselves and let God be in control. Let us open ourselves and prepare ourselves to accept God again in our life.
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