If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. - John 14:3 As we viewed my father-in-law’s body in his casket at the funeral home, one of his sons took his dad’s hammer and tucked it alongside his folded hands. Years later, when my mother-in-law died, one of the children slipped a set of knitting needles under her fingers. Those sweet gestures brought comfort to us as we remembered how often they had used those tools during their lives. Read: John 14:1-6 Bible in a Year: Proverbs 30-31; 2 Corinthians 11:1-15 Of course, we knew that they wouldn’t actually need those items in eternity. We had no illusions, as the ancient Egyptians did, that tools or money or weapons buried with someone would better prepare them for the next life. You can’t take it with you! (Ps. 49:16-17; 1 Tim. 6:7). But some preparation for eternity had been necessary for my in-laws. That preparation had come years before when they trusted ...