Workship?

I was reading. Just minding my own business, letting my eye (sometimes the right, other times the left) crawl across the page, left to right, the way God wants people to read. (What could possibly be more indicative of their evil ways than the knowledge that some people read right to left, or top to bottom!!)

Anyway, some person, an author, as it were, littered the page with this phrase, “It is the Church’s responsibility to prepare its members for Death.”

That’s a show-stopper of a sentence. In its simplest ‘translation’ it refers to the belief that there is a Heaven and that entrance to this Heaven has prerequisites. And ‘Church’ either does the fulfilling of the prerequisites or instructs one on how to complete them oneself.

Most people would stop there, either thinking the sentence simple truth or absurd hogwash. How can there be a middle ground? But I choose to ratchet it up a notch, and ask the question, what prepares us for Birth, and by inference, Life?

But that’s a waste of time, because naturally, I don’t have any answers. No sane Laztheist would!

But if Life is just a four-dimensional examination to see where we ‘fit’ in the Hereafter, how does ‘passing’ this test prepare us for anything other than ‘worshipping’ God? It kind of sounds like those who pass the test will be on some kind of Eternal Welfare. They’ll just stand, sit, lie, float around, etc., worshipping God.

Most of us have to ‘struggle’ to get by. I’ve met people on welfare and for the most part, they are very boring people, especially those who really and truly live on welfare. The ones who are on welfare, but also seek out ways to increase their income, are a lot more interesting. It’s the Work they do to outwit/supplement welfare that makes them interesting. I think it’s the Work that we do that makes most of us interesting.

But the only trade that’s taught here on earth that seems to apply for the Hereafter is worship. Will there be any need for me to paint addresses on curbs in Heaven? Can people can write books in Heaven, or throw pottery, or push paper? None of the religious papers I’ve read give any indication that this may be so, and logic would certainly take a dim view regarding these possibilities.

So maybe there’s a way to work at worship that’ll make the Hereafter, and us, interesting.