I Wanna Be in that Number.

New International Version

And he said to them, “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”

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One thing I like about myself:  I really live every moment.  Not just going through the motions, or deadheading into a routine for its own sake.  I try to notice things, be kind to people in my presence, appreciate the natural beauty in this world, especially those pushing and surviving against long-shot odds.

I could have made it in the corporate world. I could have been a gentleman's wife.  I know I could have.  Not bragging, not saying now, just being realistic about roads not driven.  But I HATED strongly disliked trying to fit into those places, the artificiality and deadness of the surroundings.  The loss of control, being subsumed, like having the life smothered out of you, except you live ... as someone else in someone else's world.

Maybe that's what Mark is recording there:  that some will live their lives more fully until the day they see the Face of God, never tasting Death until they see for themselves the Kingdom has Come here on Earth.  (Like the old man who persevered waiting to see the Christ child before he died -- Simeon.)

Luke 2:21-32

New International Version

21 On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.

Jesus Presented in the Temple

22 When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”[a]), 24 and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: “a pair of doves or two young pigeons.”[b]

25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. 26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah. 27 Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the Law required, 28 Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying:

29 “Sovereign Lord, as you have promised,
    you may now dismiss your servant in peace.
30 For my eyes have seen your salvation,
31     which you have prepared in the sight of all nations:
32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles,
    and the glory of your people Israel.”