Love and Death

Love and Death

At first I wasn’t sure about the style of the class or how much I would like it. It’s really growing on me. I love the different approach to learning and the connection I feel with the people in my group. Every day I know I am going to get the chance to hear how different people digested the reading from the night before and how right or wrong I am about the meaning of it. For me, the meaning of the class so far has been about the connecting and conversation with classmates about literature- mainly literature pertaining to love and death. It was during the last class that I realized exactly what Mr. Corrigan said in the first class “The two main topics of literature are love and death.” We have read some weird, intriguing, and bizarre stories about some interesting and odd characters but we have so much to learn from them all. All these authors (songwriters) have learned what we as Christians grow up being taught and spend most of our lives trying to figure out. The writer of Ecclesiastes tells of how everything our sinful nature desires is worthless because we all die. There are numerous cliché sayings I could insert here, but I’ll resist the urge. Our lives, when lived right, are focused on nothing but love. Love is one of the few things here on earth we can do that is eternal. We are all living for love whether we know it or not. Christians live to love God and people, while some live for love of drugs and money, some for sex and reading. No matter how we live of lives, or what we accomplish we all have the same fate. We’ll all end up dead and buried no matter what or who we love. But this life is temporary. The good news is we’re all eternal and that thought should change everything.