From the Doctor’s Diary- 13- Return To Dust

You turn men back to dust,saying, "Return to dust, O sons of men."(Psalms 90:3)

The other day I happened to visit a close relative at the hospital. The visit infact wouldn't mean much to him for he lay in a coma with tubes stuck in his neck and arms and him breathing with the help of a ventilator. "No hope" the Doctor said, "overwhelming sepsis and bleeding from multiple sites."

The margin between life and death became narrower by the minute.One could probably say it hung by a thread. Perhaps waiting for that one command that everyone born and have died and will in future die are compelled to hear.

The golden word being "Return."

Looking at it from a spiritual realm, the word "Return" has such great significance. The one who gives the breath of life commands that it be taken back and no one rich or poor, famed or unknown, big or small can say no to that command. Though Doctors and medical staff may work overtime to maintain the breath and heartbeat with ventilators, defibrillators and expensive life saving drugs, they have to bow to the words of the Almighty when He to a person says, "Return."

The psalmist knowing the utter fraility of man thus sums up in Psalm 8, "What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him." (Psalms 8:4)