Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

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You're listening to an encore presentation of Susie Larson Live.

Welcome to Susie Larson Live. Always, always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully

inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's word, and that heightens your

awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, many years ago, I spoke of a woman whose

husband had died suddenly, and he seemed too young to die. I think he was in his late 40s, early

50s, and he died suddenly from a cardiac event, and they loved each other. She learned after the fact that their

finances were a mess. He hadn't paid taxes in a while. I think he'd allowed his life insurance

to lapse. And I don't remember fully the whole conversation, but I remember how traumatized she was.

She not only grieved the sudden loss of this man that she deeply loved, she felt profound betrayal

and even anger that he didn't take care of their affairs or didn't let her know where things were at.

She said to me, if I ever write a book on this, I'm going to title it, The Business of Dying.

And I thought, that's actually a brilliant idea.

And I tried to keep up with her, but then she moved away and she got married again. I don't know that, I don't think she ever read that, wrote that book. I have not seen it out on the market. But there were so many logistics for her to manage. Remember my hobby's stepping in and trying to help initially when her husband had just died. But she almost had to postpone grief as a wife to figure out what to do for her family now that

her husband was gone. Well, we just bear prayerfully thinking about what would it be like to do a series

on Susie Larson Live on living with the end in mind, all the different aspects of living with

the end of mind, you know, covering heaven, covering a biblical perspective on eternity. The scripture that says

we don't fix our eyes on what's temporary, but what's on eternal because the things you can see

are temporary and they'll pass away. So how do you do that in the land of the living? When God says

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