Forever Young

Back in 1992, Mel Gibson made a movie entitled Forever Young It's about a test pilot who, in 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. He awakens 53 years later forever young.
Death makes those who die early forever young. Some are famous, some are not.
The famous include Deitrich Bonhoeffer. A German pastor, he stood up against the Nazis and spoke out for the Jews. The Nazis executed him 60 years ago Saturday. Our church had a seminar on his life and the thing that struck me the most was that while he became frozen in time, I haven't. I first heard of him in school in the 1950's. His ideas at the weekend seminar were the same. But my ideas about most things have changed dramtically.
My mom died when she was 27. I was two. She became changeless. But I've grown old enough to be her father.
Now, the Pope we've known and grown old with for the last 26 years has died. And he will be forever what he was on the day he died. We, hopefully, however will continue to grow.