Emphasis Preaching Journal

Woody Allen, actor, movie director, and producer, is reported to have said, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it by not dying." There is a longing in the human heart not to die. In her short story, "A Late Encounter With The Enemy," Southern author Flannery O'Connor portrays an old man's glory in the past without a future. Her aged character, General George Poker Sash of the Confederacy, was 104 years old.