“The Day of Death is Better Than the Day of Birth”
September 29, 2021
Yesterday, a good friend reached a milestone birthday while another good friend reached Heaven’s shore. Yesterday was a day of mixed emotions, yet if King Solomon were alive, he would have helped sort them out. Solomon would have quoted himself from Ecclesiastes 7:1-2a,
1A good name is better than precious ointment,
and the day of death than the day of birth.
2 It is better to go to the house of mourning
than to go to the house of feasting,