Paradise

Went to a funeral a couple of weeks ago. The 300 people there were told by the Priest that our friend had gone to Paradise.

As we came out of the Church the old friend who had gone with us turned to me and said "I don't know about Paradise but since I retired to Arnside fifteen years ago I have felt that I am already there."

Looking at the view on this morning's walk I have to agree with him.
I suppose in the other Paradise which may be still to come it is possible that there will be no left eye double vision and spells of back ache!

" Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough,
A flask of wine, a book of verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness-
And wilderness is paradise now.