Who wants to go to heaven? And obviously the entire class raised their hands except Little Jane who was weeping at the corner with her hands down. Mr. Smith gently walked to her to inquire more. So Little Jane, why are you crying? Little Jane looked at him and continued to weep the more. The whole class was perplexed. What at all could be worrying Little Jane? Maybe your guess was as good as mine but in this case, it wasn’t death that Little Jane was afraid of but rather had being warned by the mother to quickly run back home when Sunday School was over. How can she therefore get to heaven when her stunning mother had warned her? So you see, that was Little Jane’s dilemma.

The argument of whether Heaven exists or not is something I will leave to those atheists-(people who believe there is no God)  and their evolutions nonsense. Yes, atheists claim there is no GOD but yet still spend their entire life  telling the whole world there is no God with some baseless proofs. With me, I do believe in GOD and Heaven. Hey but wait, today’s post isn’t about whether Heaven exits or not but what I want to know is, if you I should die right now,what would be your reaction? Obviously you’ll shed some small tears and the rest remains history. My president died not less than a year ago and it appears the whole nation has forgotten about him. Death is one subject everyone abhors greatly but yet still all of us wants to get to Heaven. The surest way to get to Heaven is through death. If so, why do many of us fear the subject of death anytime it comes up.

If You Hear I’m Dead

A man’s great challenge is to develop the inner strength to express his true self and not to fear death. He must learn to share his love with the world without holding back. When a man is satisfied that he’s done that, he can make peace with death. But if he fails to do so, death becomes his enemy and haunts him all the days of his life.

A man cannot die well unless he lives well. A man lives well when he accepts his mortality and draws strength from knowing that his physical existence is temporary. When a man faces and accepts the inevitability of death… when he learns to see death as his ally instead of his enemy… he’s finally able to express his true self. So a man isn’t ready to live until he accepts that he’s already dead.

So tell me, do you fear death? I’m not here to simply tell you how immortal I am. Because I’m not and I’m one day also going to die just as everyone. Good! Live a life which will make people talk good things about you if you depart from this planet earth.

Now let’s look at this lovely poem written by one Emmanuel Kabenlah Cudjoe on the theme, If you hear I’m Dead

If you hear I am dead Please don’t go anywhere to look into it Because I was not guaranteed to live forever

So, whenever I go and however I go,

Let me go in peace

Don’t go blaming anyone for my death

For I go with joy.

If you ever hear I am dead

Please don’t say I died untimely death

Because no one gave me a specific number of years to live

So how can you tell if it was not my time?

Both green and brown leaves fall from trees.

If you hear I am dead

Please bury my wasted useless body

And get back to your lives

The fact is,

The body you see on my death will not be me

But the husk I have left behind after the harvest

So throw the husk away quickly and inexpensively.

For my wasted body is of no use

It is just waste

If you hear I am dead

Let it remind you that you also won’t live forever

So, take thought of your life and watch how you live

So that death will not be a frightening

Prospect for You.

If you hear I am dead

Mind your life and love more

For each mortal is destined the six feet

For death still remain the end of each soul

Live and Love your life

If you hear I am dead

Please don’t come and read

any insincere tributes at my funeral

If you cannot say the truth about me,

And about my impact of my life

Then do me a favour

Just Keep quiet.