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Famous Last Words Do you ever wonder what your 'Last Words' will be? Can we choose the very last thing we say on earth? Christ's LWs are well documented, indicating the kind of person he was/is. The famous LWs of fiction are often uttered by someone on their deathbed, surrounded by deferential family and friends. 'The key to the treasure is...gasp.' Too late: the vital information dies with the body. Much hand wringing, bewailing and a rattling good yarn ensue. 9/11 as they call it, revealed lots of LWs. Emails and phones have preserved for posterity messages from souls who perished on that awful day: predictable statements of love, farewell, like blessings from beyond the grave. Some are private and should remain so. Others are probably unrepeatable, profane, railing against God, fate, or whatever. One that stays in my mind is that of Todd Beamer, so-called 'hero' on the fourth plane which crashed in a field. His wife shared with the world his final phonecall to her and their children. But probably his last, Last Words were the Lord's Prayer he shared with a phone operator via the plane's onboard phone. He then shouted to fellow passengers, 'Let's roll!' Maybe he did choose what to say - he knew he was about to meet His Lord. But because his Christian faith was so intrinsic to his life perhaps he prayed that ancient prayer quite naturally and spontaneously. 'Let's roll' might have been addressed to the Lord as much as to the passengers who thwarted the highjackers real purpose, albeit at the cost of all lives on the plane. If we can't choose them, what will our own Last Words reveal? |
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