Grand Canyon 15

Live trees on the left, dead tree on the right--a reminder that death awaits us all.

It's easy to become absorbed in our death-denying culture, but as M. Scott Peck reminds us: "The path of health and healing is the opposite from that of the denial of death" (The Road Less Traveled and Beyond). Peck suggests that "fully mature religion . . . begins with an active struggle with the mystery of death and in a personal search for meaning in its face."

So perhaps I will dare to remember this image throughout the hours of this day. Will it make a difference in how I live those hours?