With the passing of three celebrities, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, this week has been one of sorrow and shock.

With Ed McMahon’s age and Farrah Fawcett’s illness we may have been somewhat prepared, but saddened nonetheless.  However, it’s apparent that no other word but shocking could describe the reaction of most of the world to the sudden death of Michael Jackson.

Immediately after I found out about Michael’s death, I called and sent texts to Joe and the girls.  Cammie called me right away.  I hate that I compounded her reaction by asking her if she knew Farrah had died today as well.  Of course, when I first told the girls about Farrah’s cancer and her documentary aired in May, I explained to them that she was one of Charlie’s Angels only to have Courtney ask if she was the Asian one.  How quickly I forget their age.  Or, should I say, mine?

Cammie’s reaction has tugged at my heart.  She worried that Michael Jackson hadn’t “got right”.  Basically, she wondered about his soul.  While I will not go into a discussion about that, I will tell you that his death as well as Ed’s and Farrah’s have reminded me that . . . it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.  Hebrews 9:27.

Kings of pop and Angels of television are not immune to death.  No one is.  While I understand that this is a somber thought as well as a sad time, I know it is of utmost importance.

Therefore, I ask,

Are YOU ready?

You can be.  If you’re not sure, you can be.  If you’d like to know how, please feel free to email me.  After all, it is the most important decision you’ll ever make.

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:  therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.  Deuteronomy 30:19

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