Okay I read Yahoo’s “odd” news again last Tuesday; and here is the latest and it is certainly “odd.”  Police at the Liverpool’s John Lennon airport have detained two women for trying to smuggle a man onto a flight bound for Berlin, Germany. They placed him in a wheel chair, put sunglasses on him, and casually wheeled him to the plane. The man was a ninety one year old relative of the women. You may wonder why this incident has drawn so much attention. Well, the reason is that the man in the wheelchair was dead. The two women (41 and 66) were traveling with a corpse, and will be charged with “failure to give notification of a death.”
Some people that I have traveled with have been less than pleasant, and others I could travel around the world and back again. But, I would draw the line with traveling on a journey with a dead guy as my companion. There is not much conversation or interaction going to take place when your traveling partner is not alive. The trip with a dead guy would be very depressing, while the same trip with someone that is not a corpse can be an experience of a lifetime. As we take this journey of life there is a companion that drives, rides, flies, sails, and walks with us. He is no corpse, or at least not any more. He is alive forever more. Jesus said that He was our friend, and that He would be with us to the very end of the journey. At that end let’s make certain we are not charged with “failure to give notification of His life, death, and life.” He makes this journey truly a journey of an eternal lifetime.