Fear of death with my children

[dranzal]

When someone asked me “Do you think so and so is in heaven?” The person in question had known the Lord, but their “human weakness interfered with the call of God” in some areas of their life. I told them; I am not God and you are not God, we don’t know the whole truth of this person’s life and relationship with the Lord.

Jules,
When you get a chance, reread the parable of the Prodigal son. We read that during the entire time the son trangressed, the father was ever-vigilant in watching for him. At the first sight of him, still very very far away, the father RAN out to greet him. And that’s not all, instead of chastising him like all of us overzealous parents would have done, he puts a robe on his shoulders and shoes on his feet–not the greeting for a servant.

There are people all around the world who have died and will die never knowing the One True God. Still, they have the capacity for God in their souls. Their souls either respond with a “Yes” or a “No”. C.S. Lewis said that Hell is not a place for “people”, but for human “remains” or garbage. Jesus refers to it as Gehenna which was where they burned garbage outside the city walls.

We have every reason to trust completely in the mercy of God. We certainly should be grateful that He, our ever-loving Father, will be judging us and not each other. We are far too judgmental. He loves that young man more than his parents do. If, at death, he said “Yes” to God, we can certainly hope that God said “Welcome home.”

 

[Altesse]

I had no intention of being mean spirited or cruel. It is a question that any concerned God fearing person would ponder…We have to deal with reality. And the reality is that I wouldn’t want my worst enemy to go to hell. That is why it worries me… I do believe that prayers after the fact can also be efficacious for a soul. God is outside of time.

And we are ALL everyone’s problem… sorry but I think this is mean spirirted. As the priest at Sunday’s mass said, ‘Everyone is our responsibility’
and if the saints thought this way, then they would have never worried about saving souls…
Padre Pio had a great love for souls and suffered immensely for the conversion of souls.
Everyone else IS our problem…

I didn’t mean you being mean spirited. I meant the person I once knew who took great pleasure in speculating whether or not someone was in heaven or not after they died. They were not discreet in their comments and the family of the deceased became aware of the speculation and were very hurt by it.

 

[jules11]

I didn’t mean you being mean spirited. I meant the person I once knew who took great pleasure in speculating whether or not someone was in heaven or not after they died. They were not discreet in their comments and the family of the deceased became aware of the speculation and were very hurt by it.

I am sorry, I took it that you meant me and yes, that is very tactless. It is not something anyone would want to hear about their loved one. I still say that we have to concern ourselves with others, if we didn’t noone would care whether anyone else got to Heaven or not and I feel this burning need to pray like crazy for his soul and I am sure of God’s mercy. He loves him more than anyone else could.