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Death & what remains
What happens when we die?
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Our friends are sad and miss us for a bit but, hopefully, they find other people at the party.
I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.
I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
When my kids ask, “What happens when we die?” I say, “Do you remember the place you were in before you were born? I think we go back there.”
An accounting is given of our lives. Did you give more than you’ve taken? Hurt more people than you’ve helped?
I think we live on in people’s memories until those memories go.
I think we become stars.
We finally get to be with Jesus, face to face.
Hopefully we have life in the minds and hearts of the people we interacted with.
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