Psalm 771 Corinthians 15:20-22Luke 24:13-27

Some deaths are joyous.

It’s not that death itself is joyous. Instead, it’s that the person who’s dying is so at peace that he or she brings peace to those around.

Dying people always have a lot to face, a lot with which to struggle, but some face it better than others. Some face it with more hope and courage.

How do they do that? Some people look to the comfort of the Scripture.

I have a friend who was raised on the grounds of a state mental hospital. He was the superintendent’s son, and they lived in a house not far from the main building.

One night he and his family attended a kind of circus in the auditorium of the main building, and he still has two memories of that night. One’s a memory of a little white dog that climbed a ladder almost as …