*Dead Issues

I, for one, do not believe in shooting a dead horse. The only sensible thing to do in such a case is to bury the four-legged creature. When something no longer has life, it is wise to walk away, leave it in the grave yard, and go on with your own life. Some waste precious years trying to breathe life into dead issues that will never be resurrected.

Many of us need to hold a funeral, and bury those things we have been hugging to our bosoms so dearly. That is, those things that have, “given up the ghost,” as they say. The mother of Sisera waited, anticipating life, when there was only death.

When we no longer have control over things, when we can no longer do anything about them, they need to be committed to the grave. And as I have often said, “throw away the shovel.” The devil will have you spend your life among dead things. Ask the maniac of Gadara. But Jesus told him to get back to the living. “God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”