By Ada Brownell
Excerpt from Swallowed by Life: Mysteries of Death, Resurrection and the Eternal
Free June 9-12 https://www.amazon.com/author/adabrownell
Preface
Several
million U.S. citizens suffer from terminal and chronic
illnesses at any given time. Fear and grief are natural responses for the
patients and their families and friends.
Yet, we’re all
terminal. No one will get off this earth alive in his mortal state. But
evidence shows we’re more than a body.
As a former
medical reporter for a daily newspaper, in this book I reveal how science shows
us that death is swallowed by life every day. I also examine the words of Jesus
Christ concerning eternal life, as well as testimony from witnesses about His
death and Resurrection. In addition, I tell the story of a man who was
clinically dead, but revived; I interviewed medical professionals and did other
research about life and death.
This book grew
out of my search for everything that testifies of eternal life after we lost
our thirty-one-year-old daughter to a deadly form of lymphoma. When she died, I
needed to find out if I believed what I previously thought I did. Was I still
certain that those who accept the Redeemer God sent and His sacrifice for sin will
never die? Was I still sure heaven exists?
This book hinges on this scripture: “While we live in these earthly bodies, we
groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies
that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying
bodies will be swallowed up by life” (2 Corinthians 5:4 NLT).
We’re talking about victory over death here. The
Apostle Paul also put it another way in his first book to the Corinthians:
I declare to you, brothers, that flesh
and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit
the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we
will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and
we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the
imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been
clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying
that is written will come true: ‘Death
has been swallowed up in victory’ (1
Corinthians 15:50 NIV).
Only
our Creator knows how many days we have here. I often think of the patient who
was in hospice twelve years before his death, able to enjoy life and family long
after diagnosis of the fatal disease.
We don’t abandon
our faith by looking at our eternal future. If the Lord allows me to live a
century, I’ll still need to be prepared for the time He calls me home.
I’ve discovered life is a powerful
force, and all life is supernatural because our Heavenly Father created it. In
this book I share the wonder of it all.
Ada Brownell bio:
Ada Brownell has been writing for
Christian publications since age 15 and spent much of her life as a daily
newspaper reporter. She has a B.S. degree in Mass Communications and worked
most of her career at The Pueblo
Chieftain in Colo., where she spent the last seven years as a medical
writer where she wrote about the human genome and many other subjects that have to do with life and health, interviewing many medical experts. After moving to Springfield, MO in her retirement, she continues to
free lance for Christian publications and write non-fiction and fiction books.
Twitter:
@adellerella
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