Comments about ‘Wright Words: It's not just the words, it's about faith’

Jason F. Wright responded to a comment I made, sent to him, and that wins him votes from me as a 1st rate author, and as someone who does care about those who read him. I enjoyed "17 second miracle," and applaud his high standards as he strives to share his view of life. There can be no higher goal than to write in such a way as to bear witness of our kinship and of God's dealings in the lives of His Children.

Jason wrote:

"I want to be remembered as someone who knew that God lives."

Which begs the question: Why? What is the point of that?

So, you attempt an answer:

"...that I know God has a plan for us to return home. Just like parents send their children out into the world and desperately hope they will make good choices and someday return, I know that God wants the same for us."

I am always puzzled by statements such as these. Have the people who make these statements every really BEEN a parent? "Someday return?" NO! Why would anyone want their children to return home? Isn't that kind of a restatement of the perennial youth myth - you can remain a child forever if you can just "return home to Mommy and Daddy" (be they mortal or eternal Fathers and Mothers)?

And it also falls short of answering the obvious followup question: Once you "return home", then what? Sit around playing harps in Eternal Father and Mother's heavenly mansions? Or is it create your own worlds and populate them with children who will then "return home" themselves - like a cosmic MLM program?

Makes no sense to me.