Falling Asleep

By: admin | Date: February 6, 2014 | Categories: encouragement

In answer to the question, What is the nature of our passing from this life to the next, he told the following story:

A little boy, full of life and energy, played and played after dinner until he wound himself down. He curled up on the couch in the family room and fell asleep. At his regular bedtime, his father tenderly carried him, still asleep, from the family room to his bedroom, so that when he awoke the next morning, he was in his own room tucked into his own bed. Ogilvie likens our passage through physical death to this transition from one room to another: we “fall asleep” here (our bodies die) and we “awake” in paradise, alive to Christ in the room prepared for us as he promised.

Lloyd Ogilvie (?) in Mary Naegli

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