Chipper (1991-2006)
I don't often quote any t.v. show, let alone The Office. Not sure if anyone reading this saw the episode Thursday night about the bird funeral, but the timing was uncanny. It was about grieving with death, culminating in a parking lot funeral for a bird that had committed window suicide earlier the same day.
"Death is just a part of life."
Nothing that I haven't heard before, but for some reason it stuck with me...especially when I received the e-mail from my mom that Chip hadn't made it through the previous night.
As strange as it seems, this was the first death of any life within close proximity. My grandparents are all still living and healthy. As far as I know, all of my close relatives haven't died since the last time I was home.
It was just a weird feeling. Not going to lie, a tear was shed over the passing of Chip. It's been blessing to have never lost anyone near to me, but I realized that so far death has a 100% success rate of taking humans that aren't also fully God. Well, it even took him for a brief period.
So what I realized is this: our mindset determines how we live (another obvious).
What is the majority of our existence? Before or after death?
I don't often quote any t.v. show, let alone The Office. Not sure if anyone reading this saw the episode Thursday night about the bird funeral, but the timing was uncanny. It was about grieving with death, culminating in a parking lot funeral for a bird that had committed window suicide earlier the same day.
"Death is just a part of life."
Nothing that I haven't heard before, but for some reason it stuck with me...especially when I received the e-mail from my mom that Chip hadn't made it through the previous night.
As strange as it seems, this was the first death of any life within close proximity. My grandparents are all still living and healthy. As far as I know, all of my close relatives haven't died since the last time I was home.
It was just a weird feeling. Not going to lie, a tear was shed over the passing of Chip. It's been blessing to have never lost anyone near to me, but I realized that so far death has a 100% success rate of taking humans that aren't also fully God. Well, it even took him for a brief period.
So what I realized is this: our mindset determines how we live (another obvious).
What is the majority of our existence? Before or after death?
posted by bencooper at 11:42 PM
3 Comments:
i'm actually ben cooper, jr...not sure if you knew that.
CHIP!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
man, that's real sad. i'm sorry buddy. chip will be missed.
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