Absent but present.

The great golf course in the sky.  I once heard an ardent golfer say those words in describing heaven.  Can you imagine such a low view of heaven?  Imagine that the greatest joy a person could have would be to play golf, or something else as trivial.  I can hear Paul choking on such a thought.  Paul did not have a trivial view of heaven.  To him it was absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.  Heaven was not an extension of some human pleasure but rather the goal of the Christian, present with the Lord.  Christians have to get a renewed and proper view of heaven.