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Posted on October 14, 2009 | Filed Under general

My Recommendations page includes new listings for music and books I enjoyed this summer.

heaven can wait

Posted on October 14, 2009 | Filed Under personal life, religious language, spirituality, the natural world

I don’t expect to go to heaven.

At one time I did. At one time, making myself worthy of heaven was the focus of my life. From early childhood, I learned what it meant to ask Jesus into my heart with the hope of spending eternity with him in heaven. I learned to live for the sake of heaven. I wanted to please God now, do what God wanted now, so that one day, when my life came to its inevitable end, I might enjoy that great reward, life without end in a perfect place.

That childhood faith became my adolescent faith …