To the Editor:

Inspite of our sinfulness do you know that God love you? Our way to Heaven would depend upon how we use the gift of conscience he gave us out of which we have the freedom to make the right choice. Or the wrong choice. This is how God love you and perhaps me.

We have to sacrifice & suffer in this life in the spirit of willingness rather than complain to earn Heaven just as Christ sweat blood for us to earn our redemption by dying on the cross.

Yet, anymore than we cannot understand God's infinite love we cannot fully comprehend why He saves us from "Hell" (to whom he owes us nothing).

The only way we can go straight to Heaven if we die as martyrs of our faith or live a holy life. However, most of us sooner or later we die from this world of dreams and illusions into the reality of the hereafter life for the purification of our stained souls.

The scar on my right shin bone three inches long I got when I hit my leg on a box filled with sand as a result of me trying to catch a girl to satisfy my lust is still on my leg.

That is why, I understand what purification after life must be like. For no one can enter the gate of Heaven who is not a Saint (Mark 7:13).

Those whose conscience are dead for their habit of sin will go to Hell. Christ said, there "will be gnashing and grinding of teeth" due to severe pain. Try to forget your dentures behind. If don't believe this, Padre Pio said, "You'll believe it when you will be there."

Elmer M. Abear, MD.
0gdensburg