Afterlife

All my life I have lived for going to church every Sunday. For nine years my family and I attended an ELCA Christian church, but just recently we moved church’s for some major problems. Well, we moved to the LCMS because most of our family was already attending and for their practices and beliefs. But coming back to the reason I wrote this, the afterlife. No one really knows what will happen all they can do is predict.

So I just recently got confirmed and before the class was over I asked my pastor, “How do you know that these are the right beliefs to follow?” Because he was going over how the LCMS was the right religion and any other religion is not going to heaven. I asked him, so basically your saying just because my grandfather (who is deceased now) was a member of the ELCA that he is not going to heaven. Even though my grandfather was nice to everyone and believed in god and stood by the church he grow up in, he was not going to heaven.

Three years ago I went through the hardest time in my life. My grandfather died. He was the greatest man I ever had a privilege to know. He was diagnosed with liver cancer two months before he past away, two months you would think that is a lot of time to spend with your loved one but really its not.

I remember that Monday morning at around one o’clock I was sitting beside him and all I remember was him taking along and slow breaths. I thought he was going to climb the rest of his mountain, but sadly my mother would not let me stay, also she had to work so my mother and I went back home. Well sadly to say, he climbed the rest of his mountain at three o’clock that Monday morning. I remember before we left I told him, “Pops its okay I will meet you in heaven but now it is your turn to go, God is calling, answer him, and I have to go live my life. But I will always have you in my heart.” But anyway going back on afterlife.

Afterlife to me is when you die you leave your body on earth and your soul goes someplace away that is not anywhere close to here. But you get to where you’re going and all your loved ones and kids and parents, grandparents are waiting for you to go play and run and jump. Afterlife is different to every individual in the world or time period. Say my thought is different than someone that doesn’t go to church or doesn’t have a reason to go to church. Using a good friend of my, he does not go to church he is an Atheists, But I am Christian, that doesn’t mean we can’t be friends it just means he believes in something I do not believe in.