as we all do. with his divine nature, though, he did not give in to 
temptation and cop out from the path god had laid out for him.

I did not know you were facing kidney failure. is transplantation an 
option at all?

Doris and Chris

This is exactly how I understand jesuss  teaching on death and dying. 
if jesus was completely human, he would experience and fear pain and 
death just At 06:46 PM 2014/03/02 -0600, you wrote:
>When I was younger I used to be terrified of dying. Back then I 
>didn't like the picture of heaven I had, so I wasn't looking too 
>forward to going there. Since my dad passed away several years ago, 
>having had a beautiful vision of heaven before he passed, I've 
>become curious to know as much about heaven as possible, so I've 
>been reading every book I can get my hands on about it. I have to 
>admit I get sort of frustrated with the Lord and other Christians 
>for constantly saying that we should feel like heaven is our home, 
>when the Lord tells us so little about it in the scriptures. How are 
>we to think of a place as home that we know very little about. I've 
>often felt this just isn't fair of God to tell us so little about 
>heaven and yet expect us to think of it as our home, but it finally 
>has sunk in to me that it isn't as much about the actual place, as 
>it is about being with the Lord where He is. I'm facing chronic 
>kidney disease, now days, and I have to admit that I'm doing a lot 
>more thinking about the dying process. I'm actually very excited 
>about going home to be with the Lord, but I have to admit that the 
>process of dying, the actual going through the death process does 
>scare me a little, however, I've come to believe that even the dying 
>process itself is made more pleasant for those of us who know the Lord.
>
>Bev
>