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As a solemn anniversary approaches...

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Listening to Al Green

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us." Romans 8:18. I reread Romans, and I still find Paul to be overly dry, intellectual, theological compared to the stuff I like, 1 Peter, 1 John, which is blunt and repetitive but the more affecting for that. But my distaste for Paul's writing is growing less pronounced. And that is a good line I quoted. I get frustrated when you hear people talk about the hereafter like it's a place where you get to do all the time what you would only do on the weekends on earth. Like somebody said Ted Kennedy was at that moment sailing in heaven. No, he's not. He's experiencing the incomparable, ineffable joy of being in the presence of God. Were it not for the verse I quoted in my previous post, I would call those who are under the impression that there is golfing in heaven "fools." But I won't. Though obviously I just did, indirectly.