Eternity

For those of you who read my blog and don't know already, my grandpa passed away last night. I was told it was very peaceful.

And as I struggle with the fact that I can't picture him sick (I never got to visit him, it was just a surgery that kept going wrong...), I keep thinking he's just going to be at my grandma's house next time I go to visit. He isn't.

Last night, Eric came over and let me cry on him. He asked me, in my religion, what happens when people die? They go to the summerlands, and rest and wait for reincarnation. That comforts me, because I know he's in a much better place right now. I know he'll be able to live life again if he so chooses. But what I got to wondering is, what if it isn't that at all?

My grandpa was Lutheran. They believe in heaven and angels and all of that. So maybe that's where he is right now.

Eric is an Atheist. He believes that when you die, you're dead and that's that. No afterlife. So maybe that's how it goes down.

In all honesty, I don't know. I can't tell anyone one way or another. All I can do is take comfort in what I believe to be true, and respect everyone else's beliefs as well.