Some Quick Thoughts on Pain and Suffering as it Pertains to Some of the Songs on My Heaven Playlist Series
I posted earlier today Part 3 of my series on songs about heaven, but it turned out, as I was listening to them with my colleague and friend Miriam, and her husband, my friend Aaron, that a couple of the songs are not really in the same vein as most of my other approximately 100 songs. She was commenting on the song, "The Christian's Good-Night," which is just so lovely that I added it to my list even though it is not same type of song I otherwise have chosen. I guess you could say I have a couple of 'burial' themed songs in yesterday's post, rather than heaven songs, though they both point to heaven. Anyway, she was saying the the "The Christian's Good-Night" makes her sad as it espouses a view toward dying and going to heaven that isn't so congenial. In it, the dead are sleeping in death until they are raised again and are separated from their loved ones until then, but it feels, to her, at least, as if they are dying because because...