Sleep – Locus Communis

Death as Sleep

[The adults] didn’t know being dead is only being asleep, and you’re bound to wake up somewhere or other, either where you go to sleep or in some better place. Edith Nesbit, Five Children and It

What is our death but a night’s sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had onlyContinue reading “Luther on Death”