About 5 years ago when Doug and I were just dating he was showing me how to use my new PDA. You know, it was one of those devices that people used to keep appointments, meetings, phone numbers, etc. long before the blackberry or iphone. It had the ability to "beam" meetings or other information from one device to the other and the item that Doug "beamed" me was a reminder to "Think of Eternity". When I saw it appear on my PDA screen I asked him what that was, thinking maybe it was a book he was reading or some TV show I hadn't heard of. He just explained that he put that on his PDA to remind him to do just that, think of eternity.

So when I do die, as we all will someday, I know that I will spending an eternity either with God or in hell. If my lifetime is just a split second in the realm of eternity, an eternity in hell is a huge deal. I know that I have made mistakes in my life and before I thought of eternity, my thoughts were more along the lines of , "Gee, I hope I don't go to hell for this." Now, seeing as how God tells us what we need to do in order to spend eternity in heaven, how incredibly stupid would I be to chose to disobey him or pretend like God doesn't care what I do. It isn't just a matter of hanging out in a dark evil place for a while like a really bad summer camp where after what may feel like eternity, your parents show up to take you home. God isn't going to take me out of a time out and tell me how naughty I have been and then welcome me into heaven. I need to do exactly what he has told me to do. I need to do it consciously and with Him in my heart.

I don't claim to know the answers. I don't even know that if I died today that I would go to heaven. I do know that I am so very thankful that my husband beamed that message to me to think of eternity. I hope that anyone that reads this takes just a few seconds to "Think of Eternity." Maybe it will change your perspective, as it changed mine.