"Make it your goal to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anyone."
When I was born they didn't have TV. Now I'm on the internet!
I guess I was about 6 or 7 when my parents decided we had to have a TV set. The first TV series I remember becoming enamored with was "Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal." I would watch this show and dream of the day when I , too, would write a "Secret Journal."
Thanks to the internet, I'm now able to fulfill that dream. Here is a portion of "NANNETTE'S SECRET JOURNAL."
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It was 1961. I was eating my lunch in the cafeteria at Howard College in B'Ham Alabama. A group of seminary students approached my table and asked if they could join me. I said "Yes."
One of them looked like a young Billy Graham. After we had chatted for a few minutes, "Billy Graham" asked if he could ask me a personal question. I said, "Yes" ... again.
The question he asked me was this:
"If you died tonight, do you know for certain, that you would go to Heaven?"
My mouth fell open. How ignorant could a seminary student be? "Of course not!" I replied, shocked at his audacity. "No one can know anything for certain."
The concept of absolute truth was beyond my grasp.
Stop a moment as you read these pages and ask yourself the same question: "If you died tonight do you know for certain you would go to Heaven?"
"Then let me ask you another question," the seminary student sat forward with his hands clasped together on the table between us.
"Suppose you did die today and it happened that you stood at the Pearly Gates and St. Peter said to you, 'Why should I let you into Heaven?' What answer would you give him?"
"Well. I'd tell him I did the best I could."
"And that would get you into Heaven?"
"Yes. I think once God weighed my good and my bad, I would come out with more weight on the good side."
"So, you are saying that if your good deeds outweigh your bad deeds you will go to Heaven."
"Well, I don't know for sure but I think that is what would happen. But, I'm not even sure there is a God and a Heaven."
Before going to the first link below think about how you would answer that question today. What would you say to St. Peter if you died today and he met you at the Pearly Gates and asked the reason why he should let you into Heaven.