So the assumption, if you, I don't know if anyone could have anticipated or predicted how

necessary the assumption would be in 2021 right now in our day and age.

So there's a story that I'll tell that I've told like years and years ago because it was

one of those remarkable things.

So I was in seminary and at one point I went home for a long weekend visit or something.

I went up to my childhood bedroom, my mom had kept it there and then remodel it.

And on my bed was a children's book and it was a children's book that my mom had gone

to a funeral of a friend at this time years ago and they read it at the person's funeral.

My mom really liked it and so she got me this book thinking like oh maybe you know if

you get ordained you go all the way with this you'll do funerals and then maybe you

can read this book at funerals and so I looked at it was a book called The Next Place and

it was all about heaven, all about the next place about life after death.

And in it it said something like you know in the next place I will no longer be taller

short.

You know in the next place I'll no longer be fat or thin in the next place I will no

longer be a boy or a girl and I'll finally in the next place I'll finally be free to

just be me.

And I remember reading it and walking down stairs into the kitchen my mom was like oh you

like that book and I'm like well it's heresy and she was like but I like it I'm like

well mom you're heretic that's the thing because although there's a lot of good ideas

that I'm like I want me fat or thin or taller short all these kind of things like the reality

of course is that you are your body like what a human being is human being is a body

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