Heaven is like:
I wonder what heaven will be like sometimes. I guess we all do at one time or another. Most of the time I think of heaven in "grown-up" terms. There won’t be any war or pollution or traffic jams. I’m quite sure there will be a large "No smoking" sign at the entrance to the Pearly Gates. I’d be able to eat anything I want and I would always be thin.
Sometimes I run wild with my pet peeves, things like, there will be no cats in heaven. Little kittens yes, but once they become older they would have to leave. Artichokes and eggplant would only grow near the edge of the lake of fire where they belong. Oh yes, heaven will always be an optimal 73 degrees.
I remember my daughters first Christmas she had tons of presents and she loved to open them but when all was said and done she played all afternoon with a cardboard box and some wrapping paper. She was ecstatic. She had a blast. That was all her brain could comprehend, pretty colors and the texture of a box; new sights and sounds.
I think we’ll be like that in heaven, we’ll stroll down to the stream of life and we’ll play for maybe years at the water’s edge. Never tiring always amazed always content. A lifetime of the "warm and fuzzies". I know that the bible tells us that we will have work to do in heaven. But I think we’ll have to grow into that. We’ll have a childhood in heaven that will last a very long time.
We’ll chase butterflies and walk barefoot. We’ll play games like hide-n-seek and kick the can. There will be an old tire swing attached to the tree of life down next to the stream of life. We’ll climb that tree and play in its branches. We’ll eat its fruit and slowly we will be healed.
What will the work be like once we’re grown? I don’t have a clue, for now let’s just concentrate on being a kid, being loved, running up and jumping in our Father’s arms. Let us feel the warmth of his hugs. Let us look up to his bright shining face and see his broad smile. We will know that there is no more love to give because he has given it all and it is more than we could ever need or want more than we can ever fathom.
The bible says that to enter heaven you must "become as little children". I have always thought I was kind of child like. I have Mickey & Minnie and the gang on my mouse pad. It truly is a "mouse" pad… get it…Ok I’ll quit with the dumb jokes. I even have a rubber duck in the bathtub, actually its Donald Duck dressed up as a cowboy. I have more teddy bears and stuffed animals than any grown man should admit to having. Maybe I’m a bit eccentric with my toys, maybe just plain odd, I don’t know.
But I realize too that I have lost a lot of my child-likeness over the years. I realize that today for the first time in a very long time maybe the first time ever I have caught a real glimpse of heaven. A heaven that I look forward to going to. I always thought of heaven as a place where the pain of this life would stop. Today I realize that it is so much more. Today as I write this I feel my heavenly Fathers love wrapped around me.
For the first time in a very long time I feel that the words I write are inspired by God. I feel blessed; I am encouraged. Oh Father thank you for the hole you have ripped in the curtain between this world and heaven. Thank you for this small glimpse of heaven. I long to see more of heaven. I long more to feel the warmth of your love more and more every day.