When What Is Mortal Is Swallowed Up by Life*

* A meditation published by [Abraham] Kuyper in De Heraut (a weekly religious periodical) the week after the death of his wife on August 25, 1899. For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. II Corinthians 5:4 Given what lies before your eyes at the time of death, you can only say that Death, the fearful enemy of God and man, finally succeeds...