If you have read my bio, you know I used to sing in a Gospel Quartet. We had one song that had these lines, “Soon we will come to the end of life’s journey, and perhaps we’ll never meet anymore, ‘Till we gather in Heaven’s bright city, far away on that beautiful shore….” It is a beautiful song, but more than that the words should fill you with joy, especially if you are a believer…You think about how short one’s life really is and then think about how long eternity really is…We spent the first twenty or twenty-five years of this short life preparing for the next fifty or sixty years and many times we spend no time or study getting ready for the eternal journey that we know to be coming…You will remember that I started 2009 reading the Bible cover to cover…I’m still not through, but I am in Revelations…Always before I had read the bible with how it dealt with me and this life and what I should or shouldn’t be doing and that is still important, of course, but this time through it has been about me and the next life, eternity if you will…It has given me a different out look in my reading…It has to do with age, no doubt, but I kind of wish I could have read it years ago with the same purpose or feeling as I get in today’s reading…I hope you will give thought to the hereafter and remember it is real…The strongest believer in Christ is Satan…Satan  knows Christ is real… Satan knows Christ wins..You need to think about life’s journey..Christ said he would come back soon when he left us 2010 or so years ago and to Christ a thousand years is “but a day” …so two days have passed in Christ’s time table….The song also has these words, “where the charming roses bloom forever, and where separation come no more”….I give thought to this today realizing that my journey’s end draws to a close, and I still may have several good years left, but what better time than today for me or you to prepare for the next life’s journey…Pete

If  We Never Meet Again, by Albert E. Brumley, copyright, 1945 by The Stamps Quartet Music Co., in “Devine Praise”