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O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit… Awakening was a key concept in Hildebrand’s philosophy of life. The child in its innocence who first discovers the fact of death is awakened to a horrible reality, often exacerbated by the gradual suspicion that if natural death alone is the end of life, what point is there to anything? I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with her bars closed upon me for ever; Yet hast Thou brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God. I am grateful to my God, my saviour Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit for the encounter and opportunity I had with them over time. Without the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and the protection of Jesus Christ, this book would have been impossible. I would not be here today alive to share this living testimony and be a witness to the glory of God and to the total defeat of the devil. Thank you to Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. PT-32 was under the command of Lieutenant (j.g.) Vincent Schumacher, and just before dawn he spotted a “strange, unidentified craft” to his rear. He cleared for action and seriously considered launching his torpedoes and opening up with his .50-caliber machine guns. At the last minute Schumacher decided to make a run for it instead, and 20 spare drums of gasoline were tossed over the side to make the boat lighter.

And then she dies. Her eyes are closed, motionless. She has ceased to speak. Communication with her has become completely impossible. She cannot hear my voice, nor can I gaze into her eyes or strain to hear her voice. Her body is cold. The very hands that once responded to my touch are lifeless. Her body is then committed to the earth, and I am surrounded by a dreadful emptiness, and unspeakable desolation…. She is dead, but everything else goes on as usual. Things which in comparison to her are quite valueless continue in existence: the clothes she once wore, the empty bed, the traffic in the street outside, the weather, the practical things of everyday life. All these have survived, but she is dead! I thank all messengers of God and brethren in Christ in different parts of the world, particularly my families and friends in Ireland, Nigeria, UK and USA—all too numerous to mention—who spent days and months in prayer, fasting and placing a demand on God’s mercy for my recovery. May God bless you all. She has lived in the Republic of Ireland for over a decade and worked as a Social Care Worker after qualifying with an honours degree in Applied Social Studies. Presently, she is testifying to the power of God all over the world as a life coach in the area of healing and health. She has granted numerous interviews as she testifies to the glory of God. Meanwhile, Bulkeley was having his own troubles. He maneuvered PT-41 closer to shore in an effort to seek calmer waters. It was a calculated risk because there were uncharted reefs in the area, ready to gouge a hole into the hull of any unwary vessel. Yet danger lurked in another quarter, and when Bulkeley found out about it his rage knew no bounds. Rendezvous at TagauayanAnother kind of longing for death will be found among those who have lost a loved one, and therefore have lost the most precious thing that gave meaning to life. This will be especially common among the elderly. The feeling is developed that the only way to restore the loss of the loved one is to join the loved one in eternity. But here again we do not know whether being joined again to the loved one will happen. This is because we do not really know the shadowy land of the far country beyond death. That the soul will find supreme beatitude we are promised; and promised also that we will see God face to face. But, Hildebrand offers, “The place to which our soul goes cannot be reached by thought. Where is Heaven? Where is Purgatory? Where is Hell? Here we come up against an impenetrable mystery.” The human soul longs for permanent perfection in this life. But this does not and cannot exist. Change is the law of all nature. This does not stop certain dreamers of permanent perfection on earth from pursuing their dream. The so-called “progressives” are forever scheming ways to create social utopias that are perfect and unchanging. One notices that among these dreamers the name of Jesus Christ is rarely mentioned with veneration, but often enough with loathing. It is a virtual given among unbelievers that if perfection cannot be found in the next world because there is no next world, it may possibly be found in the here and now. Even the decay of our bodies by natural aging is opposed as scientists frantically pursue medical ways to slow down, or even stop, the aging process itself. But all such is in vain, as the only perfection to be found that will answer our longing is to be transfigured once and for all by the love of Jesus Christ. To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God! Be gracious to me, O LORD! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death,

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars closed upon me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God. I sank to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever! But You raised my life from the Pit, LORD my God! Have mercy upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction which I suffer of mine enemies, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: Have mercy upon me, O LORD; behold my affliction which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death; We do not for a certainty know the time or place of our death, which is the doorway into eternity. It is therefore imperative that we be prepared for judgment by regarding the occasion seriously enough to pray constantly that we will have a death pleasing to God, a death in which we have been reconciled to Him without reservation, a death in which we have pleaded for more mercy than justice. God favours those who ask, but how likely is it that He favours those who think themselves so good that judgment is beyond their concern? For this reason, even prayers before sleep (taught to children to encourage the lifelong habit) can be a wholesome remedy for dying in one’s sleep. Blaise Pascal pondered that we might think always to pray daily as if we had eight hours left to live. This would not be a morbid habit so much as a spiritual tonic. The rosary’s “Hail Mary” is filled with incessant pleadings to Mary to intercede for mercy at the hour of our death, just as she interceded on behalf of the bride and groom at the marriage feast of Cana. Jesus protested that his hour had not yet come, but she overcame his protest. When our own hour has come, she might do so again.Since Adam and Eve the end point of our existence has always been heaven or hell. Death was the great punishment for the original sin. Before that sin there was no need to be anxious about death. Our knowledge of that punishment, however, now induces us to take our end more seriously. As Hildebrand puts it: “Death now sorts out what really matters. Now what matters is how we have lived our earthly life. What have we done here? What have we failed to do? The worthless things, of course, which appealed to us because of some pleasant feature, now sink into insignificance.” Death then, is not just a punishment but a gift. As Death approaches we are awakened (awakening is the gift) to the seriousness with which God regards us after all the years and all the sins we have committed. God’s final embrace is not a certainty, and so we are given by a loving God the final chance to re-examine our lives and contritely prepare ourselves for final judgment. The enormity of the moment of dying is not to be taken lightly. Even many an atheist has, at the hour of his death, learned to choose hope over despair.

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