Naughty or Nice--It Won't Matter

So, a friend and I were having a discussion about which of us owed whom a doughnut. I think I won, but then I had to decline. Part of me was saying, "I like the chocolate cake kind," and the other part was saying, "Remember your jade dress that you want to wear next week?"

It was exactly like those cartoons with a devil (devil's food?) on one shoulder and an angel (in a jade dress?) on the other.

Which morphed our discussion into the nature of being naughty or nice. I teased that I thought I was basically a naughty person forced into a saintly mold. He said I wore that mold well, which I really had to think about.

He also pointed out that I probably had not been forced into anything.

So then I had to take all of this on and be accountable for it--the naughty, the nice, the mold, my niche in the whole eternal struggle--but, unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on which shoulder you're on), not the doughnut.

I began to think, "Maybe someday, I'll be in the Celestial Kingdom, and completely happy, and then I won't want to be naughty anymore." My next thought was that my first thought was probably backward. Probably, I have to not want to be naughty anymore, then I can achieve total happiness. And then, we'd see about the Celestial Kingdom much later.

It makes one wonder.

And, while we're wondering about being in the Celestial Kingdom, I have to wonder if we'll be resurrected with armpit hair on our "perfect" forms? Because, well, that just doesn't seem like perfect form to me.

I worry about it.

If resurrected, "perfect," bodies have not one hair lost from their heads, does that apply to other parts, too? And if resurrected bodies cannot ever be ill or hurt, does that mean they will be unable to be tweezed, waxed, or shaved? I mean, what would indestructible armpit hair be like? I have never been able to stand the normal kind. Is titanium armpit hair that I cannot get rid of in all eternity something I can look forward to?

And, what about all the moles and whatevers that we've made sure to get rid of? Will they reappear, too? Maybe things like moles are considered imperfections and will thus not be resurrected with us. Maybe Cindy Crawford will wake up in the Resurrection and go, "Dang!"

Who's to say what things will be considered "blemishes" needing to be healed or made perfect, and which will simply be restored according to the DNA blueprint we were created with? (Okay, God.)

And what about the people who, through great expense and effort, have straightened their teeth? Will the Resurrection honor what we consider to be the "perfect smile," or will it honor the way the DNA blueprint thought the teeth should grow in as "perfect form"?

I'm very much looking forward to my middle son having the natural lenses and perfect vision he was meant to have, to seeing my mom with white, lovely arms unscarred by fire. But who knows what we might get stuck with? It's not like we can avoid our eventual fate by being naughty--the Resurrection is apparently for all.

My brother thinks maybe it would be nice to choose these things for one's spouse's resurrection. I'm just hoping for a tiny say in my own.