I think you might appreciate Jacob Phillips' book, "Obedience is Freedom". Among other things he talks about nursing his mother, who was one of the Greenham Common women: "My mother would only accept help from me: she always resisted any external support or assistance. For most of a period of twenty years I was the only person she spoke with."
We God-botherers find those banal images of Heaven pretty uninspiring too. My wife has an especial loathing of the line "all in white shall wait around", from Once in Royal David's City - it sounds more like a hospital waiting room than the eternal contemplation of the face of God.
I think you might appreciate Jacob Phillips' book, "Obedience is Freedom". Among other things he talks about nursing his mother, who was one of the Greenham Common women: "My mother would only accept help from me: she always resisted any external support or assistance. For most of a period of twenty years I was the only person she spoke with."
We God-botherers find those banal images of Heaven pretty uninspiring too. My wife has an especial loathing of the line "all in white shall wait around", from Once in Royal David's City - it sounds more like a hospital waiting room than the eternal contemplation of the face of God.