Fountain of youth…herbal potions……Dead-sea mud pack……beauty concoctions. The desire to live long and stay young is entrenched in the hearts of many people.
News flash: Recent scientific discovery found that aging is directly linked to our oxygen generation and distribution inside the body from the air around us. Hence, to really stay young, we must cancel this oxygen activity by stopping either our breathing in or our breathing out. Indeed, we will stop aging because we would have died within seconds. Conversely, if we continue to breathe air in and out then we will live longer and die (inevitably) later, albeit older.
Bible-scholarship….daily masses….bare-foot pilgrimage from Batanes to Sulu….24 hour non-stop prayer marathon.
The desire to stay pleasing in God’s eyes is our deepest Christian desire.
Reality flash: About 2,000 years ago, our Lord Jesus came down to personally tell us how to please His Father – believe in Him and feed His sheep. All rigorous religious activities are helpful in understanding and witnessing His infinite, mysterious and mighty ways. We are breathing in His love. In the end, we must also breathe out His love to others.
Only in this way will we never die.
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