Lenten Writing Prompt #29
There are articles, books, speakers, and mystics who have opinions on this topic. but what are YOUR thoughts on Heaven? Who do you listen to on this topic or where did your theories about heaven come from? Write about what you think is is like - if it is a place at all...perhaps you have a different theory about life after death...Write it all down!
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ReplyDeleteOh, and i have many opinions about Heaven, books I could write. I even had a title for one: Beyond Heaven. But this morning my first thoughts are those I'll share.
ReplyDelete"You Lutherans are so focused on the afterlife, that you forget about the kingdom of God here on earth." A colleague shared this thought on our way home from the VA hospital, where we were clinical instructors. It has lasted me a long time, and more often than not, I believe she was correct.
Heaven as a place served well when my mother died. She could watch over me, she could be without pain, she could sing to her heart's content. But that was 50 years ago. 50 years of my life have been spent engaging with death and making sense of it.
But this morning my inbox had this from Richard Rohr: "Authentic mystical experience connects us and keeps connecting us at ever-newer levels, breadths, and depths, 'until God is all in all' (1 Corinthians 15:28). Or as Paul also writes earlier in the same letter, 'the world, life and death, the present and the future are all your servants, for you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God' (1Corinthians 3:22-23). Full salvation is finally universal belonging and universal connecting. Our word for that is 'heaven.'"
And then, my cat and dog begged to go out, and I was greeted at the back door by a beautiful sunrise, with bursting leaf buds held in silhouette, and birdsong filling the air. Heaven.
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