Living Alone in the House of Mourning
Regularly talking and thinking about death is not pessimistic, but a realistic way of living. Facing the inevitable each day, for the Christians, is God’s preordained means to live a responsible life in this temporary world and to remind us of the future Great Haven that God has promised those who believe in Him. Being in the healthcare surgical industry (not as a surgeon, but as a medical device representative), I see pain almost every day in the operating theatres. This is what I like about my job, not that I take pleasure in the suffering of others, but it always reminds me of Ecclesiastes 7:2-4 in my life: “ It is better to go to the house of mourning , than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart . Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better . The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth” . The...