Country music star Kenny Chesney sings a song that contains this refrain,

Everybody wanna go to heaven; Hallelujah, let me hear you shout;
Everybody wanna go to heaven; But nobody wanna go now. (1)

Deep in our hearts we know it’s true. We talk about heaven, but regardless of how wonderful we have heard it described, most of us are not eager to make the journey.

We’re like the man who was sentenced to death. He was asked if he had any last requests. He said that he loved to sing and wanted to sing his favorite song one more time. He was asked what his favorite song was. He replied, “One Billion Bottles of Beer on the Wall.”

We don’t know how long it would take to sing all the choruses to “One Billion Bottles of Beer on the Wall,” but suffice it to say, he wasn’t eager to face death.

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