Life Everlasting!

     *Tuck Everlasting is a fantasy children's novel by Natalie Babbitt. It was published in 1975. The book was made into a movie back in 2002.

The book and the movie explore the concept of immortality and the reasons why it might not be as desirable as it appears to be. *Wikipedia article

The “Tuck Family” drinks from a spring at the base of an old tree. The result, they never die, and nothing can ever harm them.

Notable quotes from the movie:

*For some time passes slowly, an hour can seem an eternity. For others there's never enough. For the Tucks, it didn't exist.

*If there's one thing I've learned about people, it's that many will do anything, anything not to die. And they'll do anything to keep from living their life.


*What we Tucks have, you can't call it living. We just... are. We're like rocks, stuck at the side of a stream.

*Father Tuck said it to Winnie the summer she turned 15, don’t be afraid of death, Winnie. Be afraid of the unlived life: You don't have to live forever. You just have to live. And she did.

Having everlasting life, never dying, never ageing…appealing, or depressing? In the movie one of the “Tucks” makes this statement:

Immortality isn't everything the preachers crack it up to be!

Is it? Would we grow bored with an unending life?

If it’s here, in this world, with all of its tugs and pulls, and temptations, and meanness, and cruelty, then yes I believe living forever in this fallen world….would be a monotonous treadmill!

Immortality with the God the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit…and the redeemed throughout time, is going to be amazing, fulfilling, extraordinary!

Our Lord Jesus Christ on one occasion was talking with a woman whose life had been filled with poor choices, and great disappointment. He met her while she was drawing water at mid day when the sun was most unrelenting. Most likely she was there, then…to avoid other people in her town….who knew her sordid past.

13Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (John 4: 13-14). ESV

The Tucks drank and were eternally disappointed…drink from the spring of life, that flows from our Redeemer, and you will be Eternally fulfilled!

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