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What do you think heaven will be like?\r\nHeaven seems a place of mystery to most.\r\nIt\’s like an object just out of view… a concept barely escaping our grasp.

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\r\nTo most it is terribly confusing.\r\nThey think it to be equal parts mystical, distant, and surreal.\r\nThey’ve heard it reported as a good place, but are unsure as to exactly what makes it so.\r\nEveryone seems to have a different guess about what will be there,\r\nas well as who will be there.\r\nAnd even if they could agree on who will be there, they\r\nare still left having no idea what those who will be there will be doing.  \r\nIt seems to be a place of the unknown.\r\nUnknown people. Unknown activities. Unknown schedule.\r\nIt is left a foggy emptiness in the minds of those who contemplate it.\r\nWe know the glories of it will be like beautiful music.\r\nWe are just unsure of the tune.\r\nOr are we?

\r\nShadows have darkened the back porch of an old cabin in the hills.\r\nGrandpa and grandson sit side by side on the steps. Their knees are touching.\r\nThey watch the last rays of light disappear from the red sky.\r\nThey don’t say anything. They don’t have to.\r\nAll is quiet and still.\r\nBut if you listen closely, you’ll hear the faint sounds of heaven’s music.\r\n\r\nTwo family members hug one another. Tears stream down their faces.\r\nThose tears are washing away years of bitterness. Decades of hatred.\r\nFor the last twenty years they’ve hated one another.\r\nFor the last twenty years they’ve hurt one another.\r\nBut in the last twenty minutes, they’ve forgiven one another.\r\nTheir relationship has been restored. Things have been made right.\r\nNow the darkness and coldness in their hearts has been replaced by light and warmth.\r\nAnd the morbid tune of bitterness has been replaced by the sweet music of heaven.\r\n

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\r\nI think moments in life like those are tiny keyhole glimpses into what heaven will be like. Isn\’t it sad that we spend so little time contemplating the place we will spend millions and millions of unending years? I think it deserves more of our time and thought.\r\n\r\nThink about heaven for a few moments today. Think of a place with no pain. No bills. No sickness. No anger. No divorce. No surgeries. No weariness. No killing. No dying. No bad news. No uncertainty. No fear. No cancer. No hospitals. No funeral homes. No emergency rooms. No accidents. No sin. No mistakes. No doubt. No changes. No tragedies. No insecurities. No misunderstandings. No loneliness. No heartache. No debt. No unrighteousness. No immorality. No drugs. No medicine. No smoking. No cemeteries. No resentment. No abandonment.\r\n\r\nThink about heaven for a few moments today. Let it lift you. Let it encourage you. Let it remind you that what you\’re facing right now won\’t exist up there.\r\n\r\nWhat do YOU think heaven will be like? I would love for you to comment and tell me!