Life and Death
Our Daily Bread Podcast
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Death is the destiny of everyone. The living should take this to heart. |
| 0:05.0 | Ecclesiastes 7.2 |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. Life and death was written by Anne Cetus and read by Rochelle Troub. |
| 0:25.3 | Ecclesiastes chapter 7, verses 1 through 10. |
| 0:33.5 | A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth. |
| 0:42.1 | It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone. |
| 0:44.7 | The living should take this to heart. |
| 0:51.2 | Frustration is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart. |
| 0:56.5 | The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure. It is better to heed the rebuke of a wise person than to listen |
| 1:04.0 | to the song of fools. Like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of fools. This too is meaningless. |
| 1:13.6 | Extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart. The end of a matter |
| 1:23.6 | is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride. Do not be quickly provoked in your |
| 1:30.9 | spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools. Do not say, why were the old days better than these? |
| 1:39.1 | For it is not wise to ask such questions. Life and Death, written by Anne Cetus. Besides attending |
| 1:51.4 | ceremonies and signing policies after taking the oath of office, new U.S. presidents are greeted |
| 1:57.5 | with a cold reality. They start making their own funeral plans. That way, |
| 2:03.6 | the country will be prepared to celebrate their lives when they die. George H. W. Bush was |
| 2:10.6 | asked if it was weird to be planning his own memorial. He replied, |
| 2:15.6 | You kind of get used to it. |
| 2:23.6 | Historians will write about their legacies, but presidents get to plan the personal and traditional parts of their services and the ways they will be remembered. |
| 2:29.5 | Death is a sobering reality we all must face. |
| 2:34.1 | In the book of Ecclesiastes, King Solomon, who searched for the meaning of life in pleasure, |
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