There I was strolling along listening to my iPod when I was stopped dead in my tracks when Emmy Lou Harris started Buck Owen's "Together Again". Aside from it's being a great song it had no baggage attached to it. But Emmy Lou... when I die and go to heaven, I'm sure she'll be there singing those soft melodic songs. Bless her heart.
But earlier I had a few thoughts running through my mind (what's left of it) about heaven. Traditional belief in this country is that if we live a moral life in this lifetime we'll be transported to a land of milk and honey when we die. Suppose for a moment that this lifetime is Hell and if we do well when we die we will go to Heaven. Now to support this theory I suggest the Sergeant Monti recently awarded the Medal of Honor (for a great deed) and Sgt. Tillman who gave up a career in the NFL to fight in Iraq, another great deed. Both men and many others, both military and civilian, will go directly to heaven. In support of my theses that the present lifetime is Hell I offer the loud boorish masses we are confronted with today in public and as a clincher I offer George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (a blot on the name of 'Dick' if there ever was one). With criminals like that this must be Hell.
Reversing Heaven and Hell is a suggestion that we're all on this flight together.
Dick
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