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A Library Visit

In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

                                                                                                                        ...I Titus 1:2

            Our son Robert sat behind me as he, April, his older sister and I were heading across town.  Robert was quiet in the back seat most of the way up Glenstone Ave. when pensively he asked, "When are you going to take me to the library like you promised?

Upon looking through the rearview mirror, five-year-old Robert was pointing to the cemetery while asking the question.

            April looked at him weird as most sisters do their little brothers.  I do remember Robert finding it interesting, the fact there were so many white tombstones.  I tried the best I could to explain that it was not a library, but the Springfield National Cemetery.  This cemetery is the home of soldiers who died in past wars for us to have freedom.  His little mind could only take in so much history, and my mind could only give him so much history.  His dad should have been in the car at that time-the history buff he is. 

            Needless to say we straightened out the difference between libraries and cemeteries that day.  What all was going through his little mind I don't know, but for a long time we teased him about going to the library. 

            Actually Robert was not that far off.  Visiting the cemetery is like visiting a library.   One can find facts about people, history, study family genealogies and how beloved the person was to those left behind.  Another fact, revealed on some tombstones, is whether a person had that blessed hope of eternal life and proclaimed it even in death.   Many don't have a habit of visiting the library too often, but be sure of it, we will all pass through the cemetery unless, Christian, the Lord returns in our lifetime and we are caught up into the heavens with Him.  Aren't you glad God has given us hope, the kind we can count on, and not the maybe or we hope so?  Christian, when we die, we are not dead; we are freed-from sin.

Do you want to see proof we don't live on this earth forever?   Then visit the library or cemetery either one!

Robert, you were right after all!