Some things we may desire may not be the best things for us. Naturally, I’ll agree with that. But I am free to choose. And my choice may be a wrong one, but I cannot say in advance that I would regret it. If it’s my choice, I must be big enough . . having made the choice and discover afterwards that it’s not what I want to perpetuate . . to drop it. It’s a state, and only a state. We have all kinds of ways of detaching after our choice has been proven wrong. Today many a person is planning his retirement . . planning all sorts of things. You can go off to Mexico, or you can go to Greece, go some place where you think you can live better and cheaper . . to discover after a year of it that he’s homesick; he wants to return to his native land. But that was his choice, if he is big enough to admit to himself: “I planted it” and then replant his seed. A friend of mine has just retired at the age of sixty-three from Standard Oil of California. He has two children, now grown and happily married, and they have their own little families. He and his wife have a nice home in Fairfax, completely free of all debts . . no mortgages. And he thought, as he told me last year, that he could retire on $1,200 a month . . a comfortable retirement for the two of them. Well, he retired in May and departed on the sixteenth of June. He was sitting at his desk looking over the papers, and had a massive hemorrhage and he was gone instantly. Well, that was his plan . . and then a sudden departure. Plans and plans and plans! However, she is left with a fair amount of the money. So, plan away. Don’t think in terms of anything of that nature. Just plan. If you depart now, all well and good; you are restored to life anyway. Nothing dies. Not a thing dies. And you continue the journey until you awake. The whole thing is moving towards an end, which is predestined, and that departure from this world is called in Scripture resurrection. When man resurrects, he departs forever from this world of death (for it is dead here).575 ¶57