Life Is Larger Than Death

Have you ever allowed yourself to think about death—not with fear, but with quiet curiosity? For many, death is a subject wrapped in anxiety and avoidance. Yet, when approached gently, it also reveals itself as a profound mystery. Perhaps we cannot truly understand life unless we are willing to sit, even briefly, with the reality of death. Are life and death really opposites, or is that a misunderstanding born of fear?

The Christian funeral liturgy offers a consoling truth: “Life is not ended with death; it is merely changed.” These words do not deny grief, but they gently widen our horizon. Interestingly, science echoes this same wisdom. Physics reminds us that at the deepest level, everything—living and non-living alike—is energy. And energy does not disappear; it only changes form. In this shared insight, spirituality and science converge, pointing to the same reality: death is not the end of life.

Death, then, is not the opposite of life. It is only the opposite of birth. Life itself is far greater than any single beginning or ending. We do not bring life into existence simply by being here; rather, we exist because life already flows through us. Life was before us, life sustains us now, and life will continue beyond us. Death has no final authority over life.

From a Franciscan heart, this truth feels natural. God is Life. There can be no other source. And if God is life, what power could possibly extinguish God? Death is not annihilation but transformation—a passage into another way of being held by the same divine love. People are born, people die, yet Life continues.

Perhaps this is why Saint Francis could name death Sister, not enemy. When fear loosens its grip and trust deepens, death loses its terror. It becomes a doorway rather than a wall. On the other side of that doorway, Life—larger, deeper, and unbroken—continues in God.

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