Sharon,

Great thoughts.  I was sitting on my deck in the back of our house this week one day and thinking about Heaven.  I thought that maybe we would all be children in Heaven, as in, little children, but then I thought, we are all His children and He thinks of us as children.  I told the story on here once of my friend Danny and I when we were about 9 or 10, stopping on the way home from school to wrestle in the grass with a bunch of little boys about 4, 5, and 6 years of age.  Man, did those little guys work us over.  As the boys went to their homes for supper Danny and I walked the remaining couple of blocks to our homes.  I said to Danny, Man, wasn’t that fun?  Danny said, Yeah, them little fellers sure did work us over, didn’t they Scov?”  As I thought about this years ago, the Lord spoke in my thoughts and said, I like to wrestle, too.  This is why, in one of my novels, I wrote a store about a man named Jimmy going to Heaven after he died.  Jesus showed him around and they came upon a men named Willis and the  Peter., it was the Apostle.   Jesus started a wrestling match with the two men and Jimmy, realizing it was ok, jumped in to wrestle.  An angel even got involved.  Having fun, in my opinion, is what Heaven is going to be all about.

Phil.





> On Aug 2, 2015, at 3:35 PM, Sharon Hooley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Yep, I'm 50.  It's kind of hard to believe  this! I've been rubbing it into myself over and over, but I'm realizing more clearly that I'm still a largely under-adult girl, still liking to play around.  I hope I never grow up completely.  I'm not saying that it's okay for me to  just play around, be lazy or irresponsible  my whole life.  I know that I need to not take my free finances that makes it possible for me to live in a family-type home  for granted, and automatically expect to get free meals.  I have to remind myself that most things cost money, which, were it not for a supportive family and government funding, I'd either have to find any good job and work hard, or be homeless.  But in the middle of all the productive activity I must do, I want to become more and more child-like in faith in God, who is The faithful Creator; to be  like a child who understands more and more that there's nothing for me to worry about if I but only    communicate with Him through His written and  personal Word  and  prayer with  focus on who He is, trust Him, and obey when I'm given instructions.  This is my picture of a child, who loves and trusts her mama and daddy.  She is carefree, and playful when she's not doing her chores, and does  not worry about the bills, taxes, if, when or where the next paycheck will come.  Perhaps as a very young child, she might not even be anxious about whether or not she will get her next meal,  confident that they'll always be  faithful.  So that's how I want to become, like a trusting, teachable, responsible little  girl.
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> Sharon H.