WHEN MY TIME COMES TO DIE

When my time comes to die and you should hear of it, come often and stay with me awhile to visit, for I will be lonely and will need to be close to people.   Look at me and talk about dying without "watching your words", for it will leave me free to tell you if I am frightened.   Tell me if you love me for it will comfort and give me courage to go and if we cry together I thank you for sharing your grief in my leaving the world, for I don't want to leave it.   But when it's done, let your grief be finished, and give praise to Him who died that we might live, for in death I jump head long into eternity, right into the beginning of the rest of my life.
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