Emphasis Preaching Journal

When President Warren Harding died suddenly, making Calvin Coolidge president of the United States, several reporters came to Will Rogers asking for his reaction. He is reputed to have responded, "How can they tell?" While his response seems a bit harsh and insensitive, there does seem to be truth to the observations that the margin between life and death seems hard to detect in some cases. Certainly in the biological, as well as the spiritual, it is growing increasingly hard to draw the line between life and death -- last breath, one heart beat away, brain death, take your pick.