Heaven…interesting word…I think it means something different to every person on the planet. Some people don’t believe that such a place exists…some people believe that they can find heaven on earth. Some people envision fluffy clouds and angels with harps…while others imagine a paradise customized to them.
One of the things that got me to thinking about what Heaven really is, is the movie What Dreams May Come, with Robin Williams. A very interesting movie that has a different interpretation of heaven and hell…or at least different to what I had grown up hearing for most of my life. The movie is kind of the same idea as The Lovely Bones as far as Heaven goes…meaning that each person can create their own heaven or they can travel and go to the shared part of heaven and see other people that share a vision of the same things of pleasure and peace. In both movies, the people have to figure out how heaven operates and they have a guide…I have to wonder if a guardian angel’s (if you believe in such things) job doesn’t end when you die, but rather is just beginning as they have to then guide you through the steps of existence in heaven….
I think that there is a mystery that intrigues a lot of people associated with anything that we can’t see or isn’t found in this life time. Heaven is one of those things that makes people wonder simply because it is something that wont have an answer until after you die…and even then you might not get to find out, depending on who ends up being right in the long run….Since there is no way to find out until we are indeed dead. Although some people believe that there are “near-death” experiences that reveal at least a slice of heaven or what lies on the way to heaven. There was even a gospel written by someone who claimed that they went to heaven and were able to see all that lies there, but it was decided that it was not worthy of the Bible.
Heaven can inspire so many thoughts, death, dying, hell, angels, God or gods…..
