“A man that has not prepared his own children for his death has failed as a father.” – T’Chaka, in the film Black Panther
As I left the movie theater, this quote from Black Panther stuck with me. I recognized that, for parents, protection is not preparation...
Person by person, my generation is passing away.
And there are so many of us. Each day, ten thousand members of my generation reach retirement age. Funerals are constant among my peers.
It is an easy conversation starter when I approach someone my age and ask about plans for retirement...
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death...