I hope there's no such thing as rebound weight gain with friends. I hope you can eat whatever you want with no consequences whatsoever. I hope there's an endless buffet table filled with dark chocolate covered cherries, gummy bears, licorice, pecan pies and espresso at one end...on the other end there will be all of the savory dishes. Potato chips and dips, lasagna and endless bowls of spaghetti and bread, bread, bread. Beds of bread. I luv bread y'all. I want to float around on a cloud of endless bread. A flying submarine sandwich.
I want to talk to Jim Morrison, Gregg Allman, Tom Petty and Sitting Bull. Then I'd like to ask George Washington some questions and thank my old folkaronies for making it through the roughest bunch of circumstances I could ever imagine. After that, I'm going to mill around and shoot the breeze with everyone I possibly can and swill espressos like there's no tomorrow.
"My personal speculations: in heaven, our memories are restored. So many good times we can only vaguely remember, in heaven we will remember them, and the memory of them will have the same vividness as the original occurence.
In this life, our joy is private. I can see my children smile, but I cannot feel their happiness, only see the outer signs of it. In heaven, I will feel their happiness as my own, and they will feel mine as their own.
In this life, I can only see the world through my own eyes. In heaven, I will know how it appears through the eyes of others.
I wonder about the childhood of my parents, my grandparents, all those things that happened before I was even born. In heaven, all this will be displayed to us clearly. I can only remember the names of half of my great grandparents, and none of my great-great-grandparents. In heaven, I will meet them and know them well, and I will learn all there is to know about every generation of my ancestors, and all their descendants.
In heaven, we will watch history unfold, with all its joys (and its sorrows will not perturb us, for we will see clearly what joys those sorrows make possible), until the very end.
Is this the only universe God has made? Maybe, he has made other universes also, in which things turned out differently. We will learn whether he has, and if he has, we will learn all there is to know about them also. I think of all the children who have died, who never had the chance to grow up and live their life – would any of them ask of God, "Could you make a universe in which I did not die, and show it to me?" What would God reply? If he can do it, and it would be good to do, then he will do it.
I think in the end, I will have learnt so much, I will no longer be myself. I don't think heaven goes on forever, although I do think it is very lengthy (far lengthier than earthly life). I think our individualities are inherently finite, and eventually we will lose the ability to distinguish ourselves from one another, or from God. I think our conscious awareness has no end, but in the end our individual consciousnesses merge with each other, and are absorbed into the divine consciousness.
And then, when only God remains, what next? Then I think God will create the universe(s) again, not in a new creation, but in the very same creation which he already has. God becomes all so that all becomes God, then God becomes all again, not in a new and different becoming, but in the very same becoming he already has."
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Fairs and galas
Barn yard dances
Cowboy boots
Fairylights in trees
In this life, our joy is private. I can see my children smile, but I cannot feel their happiness, only see the outer signs of it. In heaven, I will feel their happiness as my own, and they will feel mine as their own.
In this life, I can only see the world through my own eyes. In heaven, I will know how it appears through the eyes of others.
I wonder about the childhood of my parents, my grandparents, all those things that happened before I was even born. In heaven, all this will be displayed to us clearly. I can only remember the names of half of my great grandparents, and none of my great-great-grandparents. In heaven, I will meet them and know them well, and I will learn all there is to know about every generation of my ancestors, and all their descendants.
In heaven, we will watch history unfold, with all its joys (and its sorrows will not perturb us, for we will see clearly what joys those sorrows make possible), until the very end.
Is this the only universe God has made? Maybe, he has made other universes also, in which things turned out differently. We will learn whether he has, and if he has, we will learn all there is to know about them also. I think of all the children who have died, who never had the chance to grow up and live their life – would any of them ask of God, "Could you make a universe in which I did not die, and show it to me?" What would God reply? If he can do it, and it would be good to do, then he will do it.
I think in the end, I will have learnt so much, I will no longer be myself. I don't think heaven goes on forever, although I do think it is very lengthy (far lengthier than earthly life). I think our individualities are inherently finite, and eventually we will lose the ability to distinguish ourselves from one another, or from God. I think our conscious awareness has no end, but in the end our individual consciousnesses merge with each other, and are absorbed into the divine consciousness.
And then, when only God remains, what next? Then I think God will create the universe(s) again, not in a new creation, but in the very same creation which he already has. God becomes all so that all becomes God, then God becomes all again, not in a new and different becoming, but in the very same becoming he already has."
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/b532gp/what_is_heaven_like/