All Souls’ Day
“When Mexican villagers celebrate Los Dios de los Muertos (the Days of the Dead), the celebrants customarily scatter finely decorated skulls made of sugar amid the feast. Kids, of course, will eat anything. But it’s striking to consider that adults, too, partake of these cranial confections. The sugar skull symbolically reminds us that it is death than gives life its sweetness. As much as we may long for immortality, without death our lives would lack flavor. Too much sugar makes sugar itself meaningless, but the sweet moments that we can snatch away from death are precious because they are limited.”
From Earth Bound: Daily Meditations For All Seasons by Brian Nelson
King Edward Street Chapel 