by Neal Eckert | Sep 1, 2018 | God's Love, Heaven
The whisperings of our potential ring throughout nature in the most unlikely of places. I walk my trashcan back after pick-up. Sure wish that emptied can smelled better than it does. Even though the better part of me doesn’t want to look inside, I can’t...
by Neal Eckert | Dec 20, 2017 | Heaven
“New Jerusalem–that’s my home. Let me put it in a song So you never get it wrong.” -Lecrae This past Fourth of July, I was dealing with some internal conflict. On the birthdate of my country, I felt ashamed of my country. But I...
by Neal Eckert | Mar 25, 2017 | God's Love, Heaven
Thanks But No Thanks As a teen, I met a man of around eighty. He was at my high school, the location he’d arrived at to vote. We struck up a brief conversation before my day started and he went home, having done his civic duty. He shared with me about his life and I...
by Neal Eckert | Feb 19, 2017 | God's Forgiveness, God's Love, Heaven
The Same and Different A man lies in a hospital bed dying of cancer, his emaciated body filled with suffering. He is ghastly. Another man struts through a nearby office building in the prime of life, wealthy and in need of nothing. He is handsome. Could there be a...
by Neal Eckert | Jan 25, 2017 | Children, Dealing With Pain, Heaven
Dear Jeffrey, You would’ve been four the year I was born and my only older brother. That’s not how it turned out, huh? It’s crazy to think that you died during birth, unable to experience even a breath outside the womb. You were only a word frozen in time to me as a...
by Neal Eckert | Jan 22, 2017 | Dealing With Pain, Heaven, Prosperity Gospel, The Church
Dear God, If you don’t want me to flip out, you need to do your job. I have a standard of living to keep up. With love, Your Spoiled American Child Difficult Questions “Where do babies came from?” I asked my mom. “You’ll find out someday,” she said. “But when?”...
