One of the many things that makes my workplace interesting (besides the exciting goings on of the diverse youth who, you know, might one day say they want to blow up the school or have to file a report with the police about the gangs terrorizing their home) is the spiritual diversity. I have two co-workers who are primarily Buddhist, and they have given me quite an education on their beliefs. Through our discussions, I have discovered, if I believed in reincarnation, that I was most likely of Asian decent in my previous life and that "my soul agreed to all this" before I was born. Of most interest to me recently has been one of my co-workers claims that she believes this life is hell. I was a bit shocked and surprised - how can this life be hell? Certainly there are many hard things but there are also so many beautiful and joyful things.Two days later, I pulled up to my daycare providers' house, and parked outside her house was a large delivery truck with "Big Ready Beer" and two beer cans of local brew pictured on the side. The truck stayed there, in her residential cul-de-sac, for about a week. The funny thing is our daycare provider is Mormon, and she was pretty tickled by the truck outside her house. She joked about opening a daddy daycare - caring for dad's and offering them beer. How, I wondered, chuckling time I drove up at the humor of the situation, can that be hell?
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My question to you co-worker is, "What would heaven be like?" There are certainly aspects of this life that I hope and pray continue in Heaven. And if she agrees, how then can this be hell?
I loved the beer truck; I should have had one pull up front with a keg for April Fool's. Ah, there's always next year.
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