Cemetery and Walt Whitman

"To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle"-Walt Whitman

In Walt Whitman poem When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, he describes his very feelings of death and in those reflects on life. Walt Whitman faces the inevitable uncertainty of death. But Toward the end of the poem he starts to praise death almost excepting it entirely and appreciating it, in line 140 he says "But praise! Praise!Praise! for the sure-en winding arms of cool-enfolding death". I love Walt Whitman words there, Sure-En winding Arms of cool-enfolding death gives death such a personification of a person wrapping there arms around you and that's a wild vivid thought. Walking around the cemetery reminded me of just how mortal I was, Not thinking I was immortal or something but you know what I mean. Several Thoughts floated through my head one in particular was in the cemetery across the street by where the angel was... There was a path which split and the path in the middle went straight and led to a building, for what I don't know what it was for but It was there and I got this imagery of walking toward heaven the roads on the side being the fork in the road and the path leading straight leading toward heavens gate, I think I had a moment. The angel statue was beautiful and reminded me of maybe when you die the angels carry your spirit to heaven or come and watch over you. Who knows? I also thought about what it would look like when the "dead in Christ rise" I mean won't that be wild, being in a cemetery and seeing people coming out of the graves or maybe it won't be like that. The whole thing I learned was that death is a certainty but staying dead isn't. I mean think about it we are promised eternal life with Christ in a place of peace, heaven, a city where God's glory dwells. Revelation 21 says " I saw a new heaven and a new Earth, I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, Keep reading and it says Now the dwelling was with men, and he will live with them. Isn't that amazing that we will be in eternity dwelling with God and we can all say to each other hey do you remember when.... To finish this up I just would like to say that we don't need to fear death it is a reality and sometimes that very reality I think will always be hard to grasp, watching a loved one die or a child or whatever you may see can make you upset, sad, scared and worried but we serve a God who defeated death long ago and has promised us life eternal full of peace and joy and love and happiness forever and ever. Just like Walt Whitman said night and day journeys a coffin but in reality night and day another soul reaches eternity. Which side of eternity do we plan on being in?