Mohammad Ali

Mohammad Ali formally Cassius Clay died today at 74 years of age. He has struggled for years with Parkinson’s disease. I watched as a 16 year old when he knocked out Sonny Liston for the heavy weight title the first time he won it. I watched the “thrilla from Manilla” when he fought Smoken Joe Frazier, and also the “rope a dope” in 1974 when he beat George Foreman which no one thought possible. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” I have no clue now who is the heavy weight title holder today. I haven’t watched or kept up with boxing for years. For all he did, his life is over. I wonder where he is now. I wonder what he is thinking, feeling, experiencing now. Some think he is just dirt, nothing else, all that he did and experienced is gone from his self awareness now. It is like it didn’t even happen. I believe that he is very self aware right now. The question is where?  I have no idea what has gone on in his life in the last 20 years, but I do believe the words of the Bible when Jesus says “I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me”. Worth thinking about. Eternity is a long time to wish we had thought about it.

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