The link was great Kat....Ray always seems to say it best!
I just got over a week of bed-rest! ugh..acute pharygitis and cellulitis (two separate entities)...during the fever, chills, achy phase I never once had a holy thought! I just wanted to be over it and back to normal. Now my sickness was pretty puny compared to the awful pains out there w/ cancer, accidents, wars etc....
so, yes, I would want to leave this world pretty quickly and painlessly. but whilst in pain I don't think I am gonna be pious.
Ray said that heaven was a higher spiritual experience, not a geographical place. (sorry can't remember where he said that, but he did!) So when we do wake up for the resurrection I don't think it will be...oh, yeah, there's Jesus, oh and look over there is Susi etc etc- that is too earthly--I don't think we can imagine it now...even w/ scripture trying to help us.....
this is WAY beyond our understanding....
Death is an enemy that Jesus is victorious over...thats a comfort to me
(sorry for rambling, I am so excited to feel better and actually be on the forum)