Bono on death

Was listening to songs from All That You Can't Leave Behind on Saturday evening as I drove home from Edinburgh in the snow, and even though I've heard them a lot of times, I suddenly thought of them in the context of death and eternity - no idea if that's what Bono had in mind - but interesting all the same.

I remember reading that he wrote Walk On about some Chinese human rights activist who was in prison - but still ...

"The only baggage you can bring

Is all that you can't leave behind...

...What you got they can’t steal it

No they can’t even feel it...

...You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been

A place that has to be believed to be seen...

...Home… hard to know what it is if you’ve never had one

Home… I can’t say where it is but I know I'm going home...

...Leave it behind

You've got to leave it behind

All that you fashion

All that you make

All that you build

All that you break

All that you measure

All that you steal

All this you can leave behind

All that you reason

All that you sense

All that you speak

All you dress up

All that you scheme..."

I especially like that "place that has to be believed to be seen" line.

Then in Kite, we have

"I don't know which way the wind will blow

Who's to know when the time has come around

Don't wanna see you cry

I know that this is not goodbye"

"For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out."

1 Timothy 6:7

"I would have lost heart, unless I had believed

That I would see the goodness of the LORD

In the land of the living."

Psalm 27:13

"He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

John 3:36

"But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus."

1 Thessalonians 4:13-14