Your past and current lives are no doubt fascinating, MD, but let's all try to stick to discussing the thread at hand.
Otherwise we're liable to go off on all sorts of nonsensical tangents.
I am told that a priest at the end of a long career of parish ministry was asked what he had learned for hearing so many confessions, and he said, "few people are happy and even fewer ever grow up."
I don't find that to be the case in my Presbyterian church. We're quite a happy bunch, by the grace of God.
And guys like Quix and blue-duncan and Manfred and the_conscience and wmfights and wileypink and scubienuc and forstkeeper and harleyd and ftd and 1000S and Lord-Calvinus and Gamecock all give every indication of being likewise contented and productive and happy by and for and through the merciful faith in Jesus Christ that God has blessed them with.
That's the way it's supposed to work.
” am told that a priest at the end of a long career of parish ministry was asked what he had learned for hearing so many confessions, and he said, “few people are happy and even fewer ever grow up.”
The old priest is half right!!
***I don’t find that to be the case in my Presbyterian church. We’re quite a happy bunch, by the grace of God.***
You hide it well. I detect essence of first wife in many of your posts.
Yes, staying in Romanism will do that!
And what is even worse is what the likely eternal future for them.
I don't find that to be the case in my Presbyterian church. We're quite a happy bunch, by the grace of God. And guys like Quix and blue-duncan and Manfred and the_conscience and wmfights and wileypink and scubienuc and forstkeeper and harleyd and ftd and 1000S and Lord-Calvinus and Gamecock all give every indication of being likewise contented and productive and happy by and for and through the merciful faith in Jesus Christ that God has blessed them with.
Amen.
I am so happy that I have a hard time believing that heaven is going to be even better! (1Cor.2:9)