I’ve heard a lot about what heaven will be like. All manner of descriptions about what people think the perfect place will be. Everything from golden streets to a place to skate to a land where you don’t have to work and whiskey flows from springs in the rocks. And all of it rings false with me.
See, God knows what I would like, and assuming He is all powerful and loves me, I doubt strongly that He would set up a place for me that wasn’t right. Cities? Pastoral scenes? bah. Heaven will have places to be with people as well as places to get away. But the topography is the part of it all that is the least important.
Because, you see, what I want more than anything else is something I can pour myself into. I want something I can apply all of my abilities, all of my energy, and all of my will to. Something to care about. I want to know that I’m important to somebody because of who I am and what I am. I want to cause pleasure. I want to know that somehow I am worthwhile. Dammit, I want to be able to love something fully and be loved in return.
And that’s what heaven will be. Heaven is simply knowing that I am beautiful in someone’s eyes. If they happen to be God’s own, so much the better - who could ask for more? Still, I’d settle for just one person. Let the least important being in the universe love me… it’s more than I deserve. And that is where heaven is. Golden streets my ass. Heaven is love.
Le Sang
[sub]Pardon the philosophizing, but my world is MPSIMS[/sub]
