Anybody Remember Ben Casey?

I am a little too young to have regularly watched the old television drama Ben Casey.  When it was coming on, I remember that I was told to head to bed. The show was a medical drama and I only remember hearing the opening as I delayed my bedtime as every child is wont to do.  The opening began with someone writing on the chalkboard.  The person put symbols for things. There was a statement about these are the things that control men's lives.  The last of those was--birth, death, infinity.  That seemed mysterious to me as a child. It seemed very mysterious and strange to be writing those words on the chalkboard. But that part of the opening has stayed with me.

These days I ponder birth, death and infinity.  I know about several babies expected in the coming year. These are happy occasions, but stressful. I have a good friend who is dying. She is in the last stages of cancer and I watch her die by inches even as she keeps trying to live.  One of her children is due to be married next year and she longs to be there.  I long for her to be there. But, birth and death are mysteries, beyond my control.

Infinity to me is heaven. Perhaps a better word would be eternity, but that wouldn't fit with a medical drama.  Infinity, forever and ever. Amen.