In Heaven
I had a toe amputated not too
long ago. Not really a huge deal nowadays with modern medical science
being what it is. The toe just got sicker quicker than the rest of me has
to this point and was just about dead. It had to be cut off so it didn't
take the rest of me with it regardless of which parts of the rest of me might
have been curious about the process.
In one of my follow up checkups
I asked what they do with the bits they cut off of or out of people. I
figured they burned them. The doctor said, very cheerfully given the
subject matter at hand I might add, that "First it goes to Pathology and
they do what they have to do and then yes, it gets incinerated. So, a
little bit of you is already in Heaven".
A little bit of me is already
in Heaven?
How is it that a dead toe qualifies
entry into Heaven? I don't recall the toe being a particularly virtuous
toe. It never told me that it had accepted Jesus Christ as its savior, or
whatever declarations the other flavors of monotheism have you declare to pass
muster.
If a toe can pass through the
gates of heaven in a manner more likely that a camel passing through the eye of
a needle what about toenails? Or fingernails? Or hair, head, body,
or even nose? Is there a giant pile of all that stuff waiting for each of
us in whatever afterlife we are headed to?
We know that household dust is
mostly shed bits of our own skin so they're definitely here and not there,
thankfully, because I would hope that heaven is cleaner than that.
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