Mortality

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.
Thomas S. Monson

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
Frank Herbert

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Susan Sontag

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
Paul Tsongas

Each of us, is susceptible to mortality, and even prone to it. Indeed, mortality is a fatal illness that travails us all, I believe. It is something we ourselves cannot cure. Although we may be able to fight the symptoms for quite some time. Perhaps it can be said, that it is like the common cold. Sometimes, we can't explain where we got it from, and we really can't fix it... but we can give it time, and allow it to pass through its natural cycle.

I believe that we will one day be resurrected, to perfected bodies. The definition of perfect of course, I think is frequently debated. Some think that it will mean midgets will get taller, and that everyone will look like the ideal model version of themselves... But I think part of us receiving perfected bodies, is accepting ourselves as who we are. God made us, and our bodies are therefore perfect. It seems only we are the ones unable to see this. Of course there is probably a fine line to tread with this theory, which I will not try to debate. God's ways are higher than my ways, as his thoughts are higher than my thoughts. So who am I to analyze his patterns?

In my belief, however, that we will be resurrected, that implies that while our body may die for a time, it can always be revived, by the Lord. He may tell me in this instant, personally, that I will have good health... and tomorrow I may find out that I have cancer. Yet, for me, this would change nothing. Because I know that one day, truth will bear witness, and I will have good health. That does not mean I am insusceptible to the common ails of mortality while I am in this life.

I must merely do my best, to take care of myself and others. And respect this body -- this earthly temple... And of course, to always increase our knowledge of our Lord and our Savior. To exercise our faith, and to do the work of God.