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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Welcome to St. Michael's Church in New Haven. My name's Marcus. Do you fear death
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It's not the kind of question asked over the dinner table. And it's a topic we are not very good at discussing
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Too often it gets swept under the carpet. According to Ernest Becker, author of The Denial of Death
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the reality of death lies hidden in our subconscious. He writes, Of all things that move man, one of the principal ones is his terror of death
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In other words, beneath the pursuit of the pleasure-filled life, the drive for endless productivity and instant gratification, and so on
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is the ever-present sense that our time here will soon come to an end
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Hebrews chapter 2 verses 14 to 15 tells us, Jesus shared in their humanity so that by his death
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he might break the power of him who holds the power of death
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that is the devil, and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death
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As Jesus laid dead in the tomb, whatever death is and wherever Jesus went
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he plunged into the depths of it to rescue us and set us free
