Templars were often thought morbid by those outside because of their seeming obsession with death and dying. Even one of the brotherhood’s most common greetings called to mind mortality. The Knights and Sergeants and many Chaplains traditionally greeted one another with “Hodie Rex” and a response of “Cras Cinis”. A King Today. Corpse Tomorrow.

The one thing we all have in common is the coming day we kick the bucket, and though we are distracted from that fact by deadlines and daily duties, the truth is we are mortal every moment and must remember it.

We don’t even all have life in common, but death we do. Some live only a moment. Some 100 years. Some 31. Some are healthy. Some are sick. But in the end we all become dust. And whatever we believed about what awaited us thereafter doesn’t matter, because whatever really does await us hereafter is what will have actually arived.

None of that can be changed or affected in any way. All that can possibly be done can only be done now. Today.

The Calvarian view of life is to say every day that Today is the day we will die. Again not to be morbid but to be ready. It may not literally be today. It may be tomorrow or the next day or next week or next year or 20 or 30 or 50 years from now, but all that time will go by in a blink however much it is, and the day of our demise will arrive. And on that day it will be Today.

Did you learn all you could? Did you implement all you learned? Did you bless and better everything you encountered along The Way? Did you protect the helpless and provide hope for the broken abx healing for the hurt? Did you speak truth? Did you fight for evil? Did you repent your missteps? Did you forgive the missteps of others?

Now is the time because now is all there is…and truly maybe all there ever is.

Repent Today. Today Return to YHWH. Because now or 50 years from now, Today is the Day we go to the Grave.

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