Today, my dog that I have had almost my entire life passed away. This year a theologian that I used to help understand Sola Fide passed away(R.C. Sproul). Death is indiscriminate. It doesn’t choose things on the basis of ethnicity, class, or abilities. It shows us our mortality and shows the curse that is upon this world(Rom. 5:12-19, 8:20-22). I am getting to the age of where those things that played a key role are starting to pass and return to the dust. That doesn’t make them all equivalent, but they have played a role in my life and as my life continues they will be markers and reminders to where I have been and steering me to where I’ll be going. This shows us our mortality and as time passes we will experience that for ourselves.