What Happens After You Die

-- By Tom Phillips 

Back in the day when Walter Cronkite was America's Most Trusted Person, he sat for an interview with talk-show host Dick Cavett.  After a couple of warmup questions, Cavett leaned in with an impish grin, and asked:     

"So Walter, what happens after you die?"   

Cronkite brushed it off as mischievous flattery. He was sixty-something at the time, and lasted a couple more decades.  

At 80, the question is harder to dismiss.  Here's what I'd like to know: Do we have any say in what happens? 

Maybe I do, and you do too.  

Why God Created Woman

Botticelli:  Birth of Venus

The Bible tells us that God created woman as a helper to man, because it was not good for man to be alone.  But God's thoughts are not our thoughts, God's ways are not our ways.  For this St. Valentine's Day, let me offer another theory of Why God created Woman:

Maybe God saw the flaws in his original design, and wanted to fix it. Woman was a new form of humanity, not just a helper but a refinement of the original.   This was a new being -- more beautiful, subtle, gentle, peaceful, more like God herself.