CV for Heaven

“”Dear Lord, Please accept my application for Eternal Life. 

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Beatrice Fediuk decided to write a resume for heaven as her obituary. When she finally passed at age 94, the Winnipeg Free Press printed the CV in its entirety.
 
It starts: “Dear Lord, Please accept my application for Eternal Life. My resumé is as follows.”
  • objectives, references, training, experience, volunteer work, hobbies and additional information.
  • “I have left my daughter Michelle, her husband Perry, my granddaughter Kali, my sister-in-law Simone and many nieces and nephews on earth, as there are no openings for them in Heaven just yet.”
  • “Lord, you know that I never had any ‘teacher’s pets,’ for gifted children already have a greater chance of success. Rather, I put my heart into teaching those with learning challenges, or difficult family situations. It was here that I feel I did my best work.”
  • Summing up her CV, she added: “Lord, I hope that you will find that I have met my Objectives and deserve a place in Your heavenly home. You know where to find me to further discuss my qualifications.”
 
I hope to meet Ms. Beatrice Fediuk some day (she seems like an interesting individual). But if I do, it will not be because either of us are qualified.

Key Texts

Matthew 7:21 (ESV):
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
John 14:6 (ESV):
“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'”
Ephesians 2:8-9 (ESV):
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”
1 John 5:11-12 (ESV):
“And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.”
Re 20:13–15 (ESV):
“And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Key Topics

blessed
grace
pride
self sufficiency
works

Source

Rebecca Flood, “Woman Submits References to God for a Place in Heaven in CV-style Obituary,” NewsWeek, https://www.newsweek.com/woman-write-cv-heaven-obituary-application-eternal-life-1681063?fbclid=IwAR2lXUK8yR7QSLJ0j9maB9zUT2LuxkIGHv_DOO_Qze2Dk8giThSvzGi_mGo, (02.21.22).