New Blog #4, Oct. 25, 2020: Some thoughts about the afterlife and FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY of UNDER OLD GLORY on 10/26 and 10/27, 2020
So what happens when we die? One of the big questions of life. What is after life? Are we merely “worm food” as Shakespeare implies, or do we truly go to a transcendent place? Do we reconnect with God? And Jesus? I believed for a long time that heaven was just a given. Then, in grad school, I questioned the Catholic beliefs I’d been raised with. Ultimately, I believed that God was at a distance, benevolently watching over us but not directly involved in my day to day life. Discovering the LDS church changed all that. I believed from my first lesson as an investigator into that faith that God was real and very close to my spirit. I physically felt it. I could not turn my head away, could not deny God and his Son any longer. They are real and alive in my life. Unlike some LDS people, I can’t give you a firm, well-constructed logical defense of the Mormon faith. My faith is based on that warm feeling in my chest, feeling the Spirit, when meeting with LDS people