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My wife tells me each year during the days before Easter that I get somehow seem to feel the pressure of the season. I get more easily upset and tend to lose my perspective on life. So, I really look forward to Easter Sunday. This year more than ever I am really looking forward to Easter. I guess it is because I have been doing some thinking about life in general and I just learned the news that a man I dearly loved passed away suddenly. I just saw him a few weeks ago and he was feeling fine. In fact he is my dentist and worked on my teeth. He was giving me some advice about health issues and looking forward to a few days off in Florida. While in Florida he died suddenly. My heart is still grieving in its own way. I will miss him in many ways. I am a close friend to his son and I know his son will miss him, too. His son told me that his mom just wants to crawl up and die, too. I know her feeling and I am sure she feels as if a part of herself died, too. All of this makes me glad for Easter. Easter is around the corner. It is almost here. Easter says to me in a very personal way death has been conquered. Close friends do not die forever. They live on in God’s kingdom. I rejoice that Easter is coming.