(Image via 3QD by JR, Action in Phnom Penh, House in the Water - close up, Old Station Habitations, Cambodia. 2009)"The Old Dwelling"
by Charles Henry Crandall appeared in The Atlantic in June of 1891:
See how the dwelling trembles to its fall, --
The wondrous house of life, now leased to death
How softly in and out moves the light breath,
And gently in the tender-memoried hall
Speaks the loved owner, soon beyond recall!
In the fast-closing windows glimmereth
A dying glory, as when sunset saith
Good-night, sweet dreams, and faith and hope to all.
Thus, full of enterprise and joyous trust,
Perched on a sill, serene and plumed for flight,
A dove will pause, while ruin round it lies.
So, too, dear soul, although the house be dust,
Yet thou thyself, now free as morning light,
Canst find another home, ‘neath other skies.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/11/poem-for-sunday.html
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/11/poem-for-sunday.html
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~For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
~So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. New Covenant Scripture
Sin brought death to humanity, Messiah came paid the penalty for sin all that should believe on him will pass from death into eternal life through him.
Human body is not evil in itself as some philosophers would like you to think. To the believers in Messiah this corruptible earthly body will be made new in his Kingdom to come. It will put on incorruptible at his coming by a twinkling of an eye. Truly, this is when we (believers) will be born as a New Creature. Old things will be pass, away and all things will become New, never again to suffer pains or subject to diseases.
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