Friday, August 26, 2011

Two ways...

Tina made a really good observation tonight.  She was telling me some about her and Jenny's trip to D.C./NYC.  The following conversation is paraphrased.

Tina: I go to D.C. see many bodies of the Jew people.
Me: The Holocaust museum?
Tina: Yes.  Many, many dead people everywhere, in garbage.  
Me: Yes, it was horrible.
Tina: Before we go to Arlington Cemetery...The feeling is very different.  Like these people are go to Heaven, and Jew people are go to Hell. [meant in a poetic way...Tina is very poetic] The people same dead...Why is so different?

Isn't that an interesting contrast?  Arlington to Holocaust....and yet, it is what occurs after death (before burial, in this case) that truly determines whether or not a person is to be eternally pitied or "envied".  And no one makes that judgment but God...

Then Tina went on to ask more common questions...
But then I think, "Where is God?"  You say God plan everything.  Why He let these terrible things happen?

(Sigh...) Ah, yes.  Free will.  Loving and obeying God is a choice.  It was a conversation full of reminders and good thoughts.

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