In Wishful Thinking, Frederick Buechner...
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In Wishful Thinking, Frederick Buechner writes the following: "When you are with somebody you love, you have little if any sense of the passage of time, and you also have in the fullest sense of the phrase a good time. "When you are with God, you have something like the same experience. The biblical term for the experience is eternal life. Another is heaven. "What does it mean to be 'with God'? ... This side of paradise, people are with God in such a remote and spotty way that their experience of eternal life is at best like the experience you get of a place approaching it at night in a fast train. Even the saints see only an occasional light go whipping by, hear only a sound or two over the clatter of the rails ... But the day will break and the train will pull into the station, and the ones who have managed to stay with it will finally alight ... "In other words to live eternal life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ was with him, and with each other as Christ is with us." -- Joseph
