Embraced It Will Serve You: Encounters with Death

by Charles C. Finn

"Memento mori," intoned the ancients. But why remember death, why keep the thought of death before us? Is not the goal to live, in effect to fight death, to stave off as long as we can the wrinkles and the gray? "Think positive," intones our culture. "Look on the bright side. Granted death will claim us in the end, it doesn't have to cheat us out of life in the meantime.""On the contrary," Death counters. "If you let me, I can serve you as no other servant, teach you as no other teacher. Keep conscious of me and discover life. Embrace me as your dark lover, and find energy in your mission."Embraced It Will Serve You invites readers to dialogue with the ever-present shadow of death in order to come to the realization amounting to a the kingdom of life is at hand!

300 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2006

About the author

Charles ("Charlie") Carroll Finn (Born September 21, 1941), is an American poet most notable for writing "Please Hear What I Am Not Saying" in September 1966.

Finn grew up in Cincinnati, OH, the second of three children. After high-school, Finn spent 10 years in the Society of Jesus before leaving the Jesuits and getting Literature and Psychology degrees from Chicago's Loyola University.

In 1979 Finn relocated to outside Roanoke, VA with his wife and practices as a licensed professional counselor. Finn has published over 20 books of his original poetry and history on topics such as the Civil War, Quakerism and Spirituality.