Ready Or Not? (ESV)

When the ugly subject of death comes up, a lot of words come to mind. Loss, sorrow, unexpected, to name a few. All those words, and many more, are negative. But there is a positive word worth pondering, and that’s ready.SurprisedLet me illustrate. Years ago, I accompanied my parents on a road trip from the Charleston area of the South Carolina Low Country to Greenville in the Upstate. I was driving at the time. As we came over a rise on westbound I-26, a motor home had just crested an opposing rise in the eastbound lanes. Somehow coming down the slope, the driver lost control and veered off the road, eventually hitting a bridge abutment. Almost right away the vehicle began to catch fire.I pulled over and ran across the median with my dad right behind me. Other people stopped. The motor home’s windshield had broken out, and I was trying to pull the man out through the opening. Someone gave me a coat to shelter my head and face from the heat. My dad aided my efforts by pulling from behin