Billy Graham's Personal Epistle To Us

Preface: You can probably find it on the shelf at Barnes & Noble....for the same copy is there every time I visit the two B&N locations that I frequent. The following post is from July of 2016....a year and a half before Billy Graham went to be with his Lord and Savior. I only bring back the part of the post that concerned Billy Graham's book....and I'm bringing it back now because we desperately need some guidance....and our pulpits are not giving it to us:
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             We had passed by it at least thirty times over the years.....the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte......always hurrying to get to the beach or too tired to stop on the way home.....but we took the time this past week turning a fourteen hour drive into a sixteen hour drive.....but it was well worth it!
             A blurb on the back of the book (that I purchased while there)....reads this way..."When I die, tell others that I've gone to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ-that's where I am." Those last three words are the title of Billy Graham's Where I Am... subtitled Heaven, Eternity, And Our Life Beyond...his latest, and as he himself describes it, his last book. (I wrote in this 2016 post about that river.....from Pilgrim's Progress....that we will all cross....and here pick up from that which was left out) I see that river today and can faintly hear the rejoicing emanating from the beautiful city beyond; this simply because the more one walks toward the light of the Celestial City, the less one hears the barkers and minstrels of Vanity Fair.
            My descriptions (left out) are but feeble attempts so I plead with you to obtain a copy of Billy Graham's book....for he sent this epistle of sorts back for our encouragement....and with a strong warning....for it is obvious that he had met multitudes of people in his pilgrimage....many of whom gave woeful testimony of their self-destruction.
            Reverend Graham's ministry began in 1947. His book Where I Am, was published in 2015, sixty-eight years later. He seemed to write it as a last will and testament....with no holds barred. He has nearly seventy years of experience with presidents and kings, and movie stars and the working man to draw from. His outlook changed somewhat over the years. He, like Solomon from Ecclesiastes, looks back upon this life and can not only see more clearly the vanity but feel its heat and smell it odorous perfumes.
            Billy Graham's vision and hearing are impaired at his advanced age but his spiritual senses have only heightened. This book is in no way a theological treatise nor is it devotional or biography. It is more of a letter to the churches....a report on the enemy territory that he has passed through....with each and every book of the Bible visited for directions. Billy Graham stands at that river today....he turns and calls out to us for possibly the last time, both rejoicing and warning. Take advantage of his experiences friends....listen to every book of the Bible visited for directions. Billy Graham stands at that river today....he turns and calls out to us for possibly the last time....both rejoicing and warning. Take advantage of his experiences friends....listen to this elder brother....for God may have prepared him specifically for this book!