With his own mortality approaching, Jesus warns us Beware, keep alert. While we don’t know the day or the hour, both for ourselves or for the earth, he tells us: He is near. Keeping God near, or more to the point, keeping near to God is what this life is all about. And whether our last moments are spent slipping peacefully off or in cataclysm, the destination is the same. We will all soon stand before a loving, but a just, God.

So the big question is not if and when we go to God, but how we go to him. Do we go to face heaven’s Judge as indifferent or alienated strangers? Or do we go as faithful children into the arms of our loving Father?  Whether it’s our individual judgment day, or the collective day of reckoning, it’s clearly not the best time to try to make God’s acquaintance. Infinitely better to have our constant conversation with God only briefly interrupted on this side of life’s threshold… and then lovingly picked up again in glory.

God is waiting. He is near. Stay near to him. So when he calls us, we can truly rejoice… That’s all folks! We’re home!

God love you!