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b'On Easter Day Clay Nelson suggested resurrection is about the here and now and not the hereafter.\\n\\n"While I know we are here to celebrate resurrection, there is a problem we tend to gloss over. We don\\u2019t want to hear that experiencing resurrection has a prerequisite: new life requires death. Death is something we would prefer to deny or put off.\\n\\n"Intellectually, even those of us who are not the sharpest tool in the box know that to live is to die. Nothing lives forever. No matter how often we visit the gym; no matter how many of life\\u2019s pleasures we forego to advance our longevity, few of us will receive the Queen\\u2019s congratulatory letter upon our hundredth birthday. If we were swans infamous for their belligerence we might live to 102. If we were happy as a clam we might make it to 405 like one found off the coast of Iceland. If we were content living an isolated existence, barely growing in order to just survive in exceedingly harsh conditions, we might live as long as a Bristlecone pine. The oldest found was 4900 years old. Of course we could opt for suspended animation. There is a bacterium that was in stasis in sea salt that was 250 million years old before being revived. But few of us are willing to wait so long to get a life. Eventually, if we are alive, we will die."\\n\\nFull text and video links at www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=534&id=1053.'