Kenna and Taylor are coming down next weekend.  I am excited to see them, as we didn't get to spend as much time with them Thanksgiving as I would have liked.  Taylor did fly down for a week after Christmas but Kenna had just begun a new job and couldn't come.

They are coming exclusively to play "musical cars" with us.

They will fly down to pick up my car, which I sold to Taylor at the going "Grandma" rate.  He is so excited, as this will be his first car that is exclusively his.  He has been sharing his mom's car with her.

Holly is buying yet another new car in a couple of weeks.  Bevan will take their monstrous GMC Denali SUV as his car and she is getting a Beamer.  I just hope she has better luck with it than she did with her Cadillac.

I will take their Mercury SUV as my car, which is really nothing more than a Ford Explorer with a different grill.  I am looking forward to having an SUV again.

I've had three, one a Ford Explorer, and I really enjoy driving them, as I am up higher, feel safer, and can see better.

Well, on to the second part of this post.  I watched some of Whitney Houston's funeral yesterday.  Here is a woman who had sunk so far that she was borrowing money from friends to buy her cigarettes, booze, and her pills.

People online spoke of her darker side when she was foul-mouthed, spaced-out and wasted.  According to those who were with her or came into contact with her in the days immediately prior to her death, she smelled of booze and cigarettes a well as seeming dazed and confused.

Yet, at her funeral yesterday, all we heard was how much Whitney loved the Lord, of how she was now in Heaven singing with the angels, and what a wonderful and generous person she was.

Something I have noticed all my life.  It doesn't seem to matter what kind of life a person has led, once he dies, he becomes a paragon of virtue, who is assuredly now in Heaven.

Not one time have I ever attended a funeral and had someone say,  "This guy was no good, and I'm sure he is in hell even as we speak."

That has always bothered me, because I am fairly sure that Whitney Houston is NOT in Heaven, although she was a Baptist and that religion does believe that "once in grace, always in grace."

That subject came up yesterday also....that her "grace" had carried her through.

Well, I have just a little different belief.  I do believe in "grace", that our being saved has put us in a perpetual state of having our sins forgotten through the blood of Jesus; however, I do strongly also believe that we can fall from grace. 

Through confession and repentance, we can be restored to grace, once we have fallen; but we cannot continue to engage in those activities that led to our fall.

And that's my Sunday School lesson for today.  Feel free to agree or disagree.  It won't bother me in the least nor will it change my beliefs one iota.