Perish
Dear Reader, the words of the carpenter tells us, " Even those closest to you—your parents, brothers, relatives, and friends—will betray you. They will even kill some of you. 17 And everyone will hate you because you are my followers. [ d ] 18 But not a hair of your head will perish! 19 By standing firm, you will win your souls." It seems the carpenter's way of defining perish and mine differ. To my view, when life is extinguished, it is perished.Yet the carpenter tells me to look again, to see what truly lasts and what is merely obfuscation. Humanity has been mesmirised into seeing only what is short and temporary, and failing to see the deeper and eternal. If I move from this mortal veil to the next, yet maintain my soul, nothing has perished, but merely been moved. I have a change of location with my entirity intact. If however I lose my soul, then, truly something has perished. Dear Reader, are you standing firm?