Friends and family shared his life of faith and how it intimately influenced their lives. I was deeply moved by the impact one man can have for the Kingdom of God. As we sang Amazing Grace and the unforgettable line: “When we’ve been there ten thousand years”, I recalled my conversations with Burt and our love for the puritan Preacher Jonathan Edwards. His resolutions were his calling of how he conducted his life at the highest level all the time.

Resolved to live with all my might, while I do live.
Resolved that I will live, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.

Presently our lives are limited to time and space. Minutes, hours and days are short and never reclaimed. It has been said: “In our Father’s house, there will be no wasted moments or years. There will be no waiting, no boredom, and no hurry. Time will be turned upside down, inside out, and all around. It will be but a faded memory. Eternity, which we have spent our entire lives preparing for will be as real as the second hand is today. What is incomprehensible will be comprehended. What is vast will remain vast, but our capacity to experience it will be transformed. This is all the time that ever will be. We are about the step out of this realm into the timeless expanse of eternal glory. We are about to leap into God’s everlasting day.”

When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we first begun.