Events In Life

There are times when Howard Thurman’s writings feel bottomless:

“It is urgent to remember that death is not the worst thing in the world.  Again, death is an event in life.  It is something that occurs in life rather than something that occurs to life.  The distinction is important and urgently significant.  If death is an event in life, then it must take place alongside an endless series of events, none of which exhausts life or determines it….  [T]he glorious thing about man’s encounter with death is the fact that what a man discovers about the meaning of life as he lives it need not undergo any change as he meets death.”