Pretend, my little friends, that my hand here represents
your spirit.
It is alive.
And it can move by itself.
Suppose that this glove represents your mortal body.
It cannot move.
When your spirit enters into your body, then it can move
and act and live.
Now you are a person, a spirit in a body.
You're living upon the earth.
Now, it was not intended that you stay here forever--just
for a lifetime.
You little ones are just beginning your lifetime.
Your grandfather and great-grandfather and -mother
are nearly finished with theirs.
It wasn't long ago that they were little fellows and girls,
just like you are now.
But one day they will leave this mortal
existence, and so will you.
Someday, because of old age or perhaps a disease, maybe an
accident, the spirit and the body will be separated.
We then say a person has died.
Death is a separation.
Now, all of this was according to a plan.
Remember, my hand represented your spirit, and the glove
represented your body.
While you are alive, the spirit inside the body can
cause it to act and to work and to live.
When I separate them--when the glove, which represents your
body, is taken away from your spirit--it cannot move.
It just falls down and is dead.
But your spirit is still alive.
The part of you that looks out through your eyes and allows
you to think and to smile and to act and to know and to
be--that is your spirit.
And that is eternal.
It cannot die.