When I was growing up and my pets got old, they went to live on a “farm” where I could not visit them. Grandparents and loving relatives just disappeared to go live in Heaven, which was explained by someone pointing to the sky. On Sundays, our family would go visit marble-faced stones with my dad’s sister or his father’s name on it. When I was really young, I wondered why those relatives never came to visit or how they could breathe inside that wall. The explanation was that they lived in Heaven (or the sky in my mind).

There are many questions in life that we cannot answer. One question with an answer that most of us agree upon is that our physical life ends in death. (more…)