. . . Of course Heaven is leisure (‘there remaineth a rest for the people of God’ [Hebrews 4:9]): but I picture it pretty vigorous too as our best leisure really is. Man was created ‘to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.’ Whether that is best pictured as being in love, or like being one of an orchestra who are playing a great work with perfect success, or like surf bathing, or like endlessly exploring a wonderful country or endlessly reading a glorious story—who knows? Dante says Heaven ‘grew drunken with its universal laughter.’
Being in Heaven is to exist in total communion with God and all others in a state of joy. They number of ways to experience Heaven are as varied as the number of souls who exist therein; as is the path there. An infinite God has created a path for each individual soul that has ever existed, exists now or will ever exist. if it were not so, God would not be God. He has also prepared an individual Heaven for each.
Brothers and sisters, let us begin practicing here for our Heaven that awaits us. The more of our Eden we inhabit here, the more of our Heaven we affirm.
Building heaven,
Z gardener
From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III
Compiled in Yours, Jack
Compiled in Yours, Jack
The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume III: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy 1950-1963. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C. S. Lewis. Copyright © 2008 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
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