I subscribe to my home county newspaper, The Cavalier Chronicle, and they offer a weekly homily on Page 7. I wrote out the one for 12/10/35, entitled Be Patient: “Waiting always seems longer than the wait itself.”
My response: Yes.
Chronicle: “For future good things, most of us want to accelerate the timetable.”
My response: No a future good thing like going to heaven is not a dear wish that most people seek to accelerate, for they need to die, as well as be holy, virtuous and in God’s good graces to effectuate that residing in heaven to be accelerated.
Most people cling to life at all costs no matter how unhappy and wretched they are, dying is the last thing they seek.
Chronicle: “God, however, acts in the fullness of time.”
My response: This sentence is lovely, true and wise, God will take us when De wants to, not a minute before or a minute after God and Fate decide our hour of death. We should live well and live each moment to the fullest, loving life and being life-oriented, while also being ready at a second’s notice to be sent home without notice or warning. This orientation is not morbid: it is realistic.
Chronicle: “God’s Son came into the world at just the right time. Hear more this week in church.
You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.” James 5:7-10 Matthew 11:2-11.
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