In the Lenten meditation today, the story continued of Takashi Nagai who lived in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped. In this part of the story, he had a cancer diagnosis and was told he had possibly 2 years to live. He had converted to Catholicism and left his life in God’s hands as he continued to work. The man was a doctor and had gone to work at the hospital as usual when the bomb was dropped. Now he was desperately trying to save others. Along the same topic lines, my sister and I watched a couple episodes of The Chosen tonight. They also dealt with death. It is something we all struggle with and will face on our own. The meditation quoted Josemaria Escriva from his book The Way, “For others, death is a stumbling block, a source of terror. For us, death is an encouragement and a stimulus. For them it is the end; for us it is the beginning.” It was a beautiful reminder.

I Found God today in a beautiful reminder of what is to come.