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Photo by Anton Darius<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m ready to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn\u2019t say that I want <\/em>to die, but that I\u2019m ready to die. I\u2019m not suicidal. I wasn\u2019t diagnosed with a terminal disease that has given me mere months to live. No, I\u2019m just ready to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am often struck by the energy and effort many put into life\u2026 without scarcely a thought about death. Perhaps they (you?) wish to avoid thinking about it. Perhaps they (you?) don\u2019t put much stock in it (that is, what happens after death), so the belief is that if this life is all th<\/g>at there is, then we had better make it count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here\u2019s what I have found: my life is so very meaningful and richly fulfilling because <\/em>I am ready to die. That is because I know<\/em> what will happen when I exhale for the very last time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I know that my redeemer<\/g> lives,<\/g> and that in the end he will stand on the earth. I myself will see him with my own eyes \u2013 I and not another. How my heart yearns within me!”<\/p>Job 19:25, 27 (NIV)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m ready to die, for I am at peace now<\/em> with what I know will happen then.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So no, it isn\u2019t the end of the world when hardship hits me in this life. Tragedy doesn\u2019t turn my world upside down. Loss<\/g> doesn\u2019t leave me languishing helplessly.\u00a0Bad things will inevitably happen, and I will take them in stride. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s more, I can give my absolute best in this life, because the life that is coming to me is the kind of gift that prompts one to spend his time here on earth expressing gratitude in every way possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am ready to die. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore\u2026 I can really live. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m ready to die. I didn\u2019t say that I want to die, but that I\u2019m ready to die. I\u2019m not suicidal. I wasn\u2019t diagnosed with a terminal disease that has given me mere months to live. No, I\u2019m just ready to die. I am often struck by the energy and effort many put into life\u2026… Continue reading Living a Full Life<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,9,8,7,10],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-death","tag-job","tag-life","tag-living","tag-redeemer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p842FN-5J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}