[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Book of Questions #17

[Amanda Lewanski]

Doreen wrote:

> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> Kimberly wrote:
>   I believe in God, and in an afterlife, but sometimes
> in my puny little human mind I find the idea of eternity in Heaven
> even to be tiring.  I guess if there are lots of volleyball games and
> cookouts and the occasional float trip it'll be nice, but they'll have
>
> to supply me with a nice hammock so I can rest up if we're going to be
>
> at it forever ;)
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> Good point!  What DO people do all the time in the standard Christian
> heaven?  Drift around on clouds?  <big snip>
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> I can not think of anything that I love enough to want to do it 24/7.

I thought pretty much the same thing until I read Richard Bach's "The
Reluctant Messiah," where the narrator/focus/whatever says he'd be bored
with eternal perfection, and Donald Shimoda (R.M.) says to look at the
sky. Asks if it's a perfect sky, gets the answer "It's always a perfect
sky." Then asks, "But is it always the same?"

So that's how I can wrap my mind, even a little bit, around the concept
of eternity without getting scared of it.

--Amanda
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