Living life with joy and gratitude until Christ comes

Editor’s note: This is a reprinted column from Jack Purcell’s “On the Journey” archives. It originally appeared in The Star in 2013.

I hope you are not one of those Christians who has succumbed to fatalism. You know, the folks whose favorite hymn is “The Sweet By and By.”

Their summary of the Christian life is “I will suffer through this life until I get to heaven where everything will be perfect.”