Forgot to include this in previous post concerning our focus too late on making amends or getting things right at the end of our lives. How much do we hear either a joke or an evangelist about standing before Saint Peter at the pearly gates. Here is the beginning of a song – “Time Never Ends” – that illustrates my point. Some wrongly believe that when it’s time to die; it’s time to make amends. But if we don’t have things right with God before we die, there will be no pearly gates question and answer session, no second chance.
Time Never Ends Lyrics: Hart, Weir, Haynes Music: Hart, Weir, Haynes
This is the revised version played by The Dead in 2004:
Stepping through the midnight sun
To a life that never endsSnowflakes fall, winter comes
Time to make amends
God of wind, God of time
I give my heart to theeTake me to a better place
Let my soul fly freeLet my soul fly free
Sorry, dude, too late.And I don’t mean that sarcastically.Very sadly many are counting on a pearly gates meeting that will never happen.
