February 8, 2016

The guest preacher at All Souls was speaking of a friend of hers in despair. The friend asked, “Am I going to hell?”
The preacher said, “Do you feel abandoned by God?”
“Yes.”
“Then you are in hell already.” 
But that is the way I feel, too– every day when I think about it, which is almost every day.  I understand the Calvinists better, who maintain you can go to hell through no particular actions of your own.