“I’m afraid that he won’t know me in heaven.”

The woman in front of me was shaking as she talked. Their marriage had been good. Her life had been hard. She was clinging to his life even as it was being measured in hours at most.

If I had to guess, she had heard the words of Jesus in some sermon or conversation or something. Luke says them this way, “in the resurrection from the dead [they] will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die; for they are like the ang...