“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:40)
It’s almost Halloween, the time of costumes, candy corn, and above all, creepy movies. One of the movies that made a life-long impact with me came out at Halloween in 1990 --Joel Schumacher's horror-thriller, “Flatliners.” “Flatliners” followed the lives of four young medical students, who manually induced “near-death” experiences in order to find out what lay beyond the grave. What they found was that their past sins –ones they had not atoned for—were coming back to haunt them in real-time….literally. Only after they had made amends to the persons they had harmed or in some way repaired broken relationships could their “demons” be silenced and their souls be at peace.
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