Often to get through the struggles of life we don't need the advice of an expert, but could use the wisdom of a friend. This book contains a series of letters that were written by Eugene Peterson to a life-long friend. Here is another letter from this book, encouraging his friend to "live like you are dying".......
p.64 - "We live in a culture that is so determined to eliminate death from our awareness that we deliberately block from our mind this essential reality of our existence. How distorted our imaginations become if we forget that we are going to die. Amnesia regarding death soon develops into illusions regarding life."
"The old theologians often kept a skull on their writing tables to remind them of their mortality. Some monks in the Middle Ages used to sleep in their coffins at night to prevent presuming on another day of life. We cannot live well if we are not preparing to die well."
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