"When we've been here ten thousand years...
bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise...
then when we've first begun."

It was a pretty awesome conference for me.  I purposely sat down front so that God had my complete attention.  Then came that old song. "Amazing Grace"

For some reason I cried this time.  I must have sung this song 1,000 times but it meant something special today. 

Perhaps it's because I am now 50+ years old.  Perhaps it's the major heart surgery I had a few months ago.  But I now feel what I always have known.  This life is temporary. 

But I don't want it to end.  I like my life.  My family.  My wife.  My Job.  I like the town I live in.  I feel more and more able to contribute to the happiness of other.  More and more significant. 

But it's almost over.  Not today or tomorrow but 30 or so years from now.  I can remember 30 years back and it doesn't seem that long ago.  I have much less time now than when I first began.

10,000 years of heaven... no less days than when I first began.  Wow!

¶ 2:15 PM