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The Altar of Age

 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 - like