Emphasis Preaching Journal

Rabbi Harold Kushner wrote a book about Ecclesiastes, a short writing in the Hebrew Bible. Kushner described a man who came to see him in his study. The man told Kushner how he had attended a funeral two weeks earlier. A man in his office had died suddenly. The man who visited Kushner said they had already replaced the deceased man at the office. His wife planned to move out of state. The experience had affected the rabbi's visitor deeply. "Rabbi," he said to Kushner, "I've hardly slept at all since then. I can't stop thinking that it could happen to me, that one day it will happen to me, and a few days later I will be forgotten as if I had never lived. Shouldn't a man's life be more than that?" (Harold Kushner, When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough, New York: Summit Books, 1986, page 20.)
--Chinn