Today’s theme: Heaven
Colorful Living Tip of the Day …
• Wonder what you’ll do if you get to heaven and find they were serious about forgiveness and it’s full of folks with whom you got into Facebook fights over things like Trump?
Relatables …
• Wonder if guys in heaven talk about earth bodies the way they talk about old cars: "It was bald, had a great big ass, tiny li’l pecker but, man, the thing got great mileage.”
• Many men experience what is known as a mid-life crisis at about age 50. Math question: In heaven our souls are supposed to live for eternity. If there's such a thing as a mid-Afterlife crisis, when would it strike?
• Ask the faithful if they think attending church is mandatory in heaven or if that’s considered sort of redundant.
• Wonder how much less crowded the afterlife will be if instead of a stairway to heaven, the worthy are forced to ascend a really, really long ladder.
• Ask friends if they think all the movies in heaven are G-rated and that if they are you’re going to look around for the suggestion box.
• Accept the fact you can play a mean bluegrass banjo or country fiddle on earth and it won’t make any difference. Once you get to heaven, everyone’s in a soul band.
• I hope in heaven -- fingers crossed -- I become blessed with the satisfying ability to fix things. But I worry in heaven nothing'll ever break.
Unrelated …
• Anytime you hear news of anyone dying suddenly, it ought to reinforce the urgency of every moment of every day living suddenly.
• I wonder if Lazarus had siblings who resented it when his parents celebrated two birthdays each year for their every one.
• Today’s one of those days I wish I had discipline to avoid the news & binge watch in 20 years to see how it all ends.
Zeitgust Word of the Week (a word I made up with the goal of getting it into an actual dictionary) …
Furrious: The unstable state of mind hunters get in whenever they hear about the latest attention grabbing stunt by animal rights group PETA.
Related “travel” story …
“Hey, Mr. Palmer, do you believe there’s golf in Heaven?”
“That was the last question posed to Arnold Palmer by Chris Rodell of Kingdom magazine, the quarterly golf and lifestyle publication produced in concert with Palmer, when he interviewed The King for the last time on Aug. 16., 2016”
Related blog post …
“How old will you be in heaven,” (Sept. ‘09) …
Do you ever wonder what age you’ll be in heaven? I do. I hope I live a good long life, but not if it means I get to heaven and am stuck being something like 89 decrepit years old for eternity. The speculation is presumptuous for me, I admit, but I like to think I’ll make the cut. I’m kind to children and old people, never hog the passing lane for extended periods or send annoying ALL CAP E-MAILS. Sure, that’s setting the heaven bar pretty low, but by today’s standards it amounts to near saintly behavior. I wonder about the demographics of heaven.
Concluding thought …
• Wonder what you’ll do if you get to heaven and you’ve lived such an exclusively sin-free life the only ones there are you, God, Jesus and, of course, Elvis.
• Author’s note …
All Chris’s books can be purchased through www.ChrisRodell.com