With appreciation to my friend Tom Miles, I post this tiny bit of holy heresy…

for those of us who have kept the faith for forty plus years as well as those who are recent converts. 

 

Peyton Manning, after living a full life, died and went to heaven.

When he got to heaven, God was showing him around.

They came to a modest little house with a faded Colts flag in the window.

“This house is yours for eternity, Peyton,” said God.

“This is very special; not everyone gets a house up here.”

Peyton felt special, indeed, and walked up to his house.

On his way up the porch, he noticed another house just around the corner.

It was a 3-story mansion with a black and gold sidewalk, a 50-foot tall flagpole with an enormous Saints logo flag,

and in every window, a New Orleans Saints towel.

Peyton looked at God and said “God, I’m not trying to be ungrateful, but I have a question.

I was an all-pro QB, I hold many NFL records, and I even went to the Hall of Fame.”

 

God said “So what’s your point Peyton?”

“Well, why does Drew Brees get a better house than me?”

God chuckled, and said “Peyton, that’s not Drew’s house, it’s mine.” 

 

“As for the saints who are in the land,

they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight.” 

Pslam 16:3 NIV