The first word about you is that you received this life.
On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings.
Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.
For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one.
It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.
We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.