Having turned 72 this past month, and my body's arthritis, aches, pains giving ample confirmation of that fact, I realize that the vast majority of my life is past. Now, I am not sick from any disease - that I know of - except my Sin Nature that will not go away in this lifetime. Yet, I can understand more and more this man I met years ago who said to me, "I can't wait to die and enter into Heaven's glory". It's not that I didn't want heaven's glories, but I was younger and, if honest, didn't want to die yet. Over the course of these last three years, I've said goodbye to five close friends - all pretty much my age. There were different reasons for their death - an accident, cancers, even covid - but each of them affected me in both sad and encouraging ways. I know all of them as brothers in Christ and therefore celebrate their entrance to life eternal before our Savior. Yet each of them left behind spouses, family, and friends - lik...