When I take my last breath and move onto my next chapter, I see everything as I believe it could be. I am one who believes Heaven may, in fact, be different for everyone. Your heaven may vary greatly from mine, but I know we will all experience Heaven.
My first step will be recognizing my escort. I will be unsure if I am leaving or arriving. I will feel complete faith and comfort with whomever has been sent to walk with me. It will be someone who has gone before me with whom I share great love. I don't know who it will be, only that I will be very happy to be in his/her company. I will be so happy to see him/her again. My grandmother, Mom-Mom, my dad, a dear friend~who knows?
We will walk through the light into a large area of flowers all shades of yellow and purple with deep green foliage as far as I can see. To the sides there are small pools of the bluest water I've ever seen. There are white benches along the path for sitting and talking. We hear each other's thoughts. I know that this walk will lead me to my reward. Whatever I have earned while living on earth, will be showered on me here in the next life. Good and bad. For this is judgment time and I will face my sins as well as be rewarded for my good heart.
I will cross the Rainbow Bridge and find waiting for me every furbaby I ever loved. They will all run to lick, rub, jump and smile at me. The same unconditional love they each showed me in life, they will show me now in Heaven. My heart will nearly burst with joy at touching these loves again.
I will be reunited with every person who's life I touched in one way or the other. Some I will remember and other's I will learn how I helped or hurt, unknown to me until now. I will be given the chance to ask forgiveness. I will meet the people who affected me through the years and be able to thank them or remind them of my own hurt at their hands, if I wish. I can tell them that I don't wish to relive any hurts and whatever happened then, is over and forgiven.
My eternity will be quiet. It will be filled with books for reading and for writing. It will be filled with my family and friends and many souls I never got to meet while here, but now will be accessible to me , enjoying their talents or their intelligence and they will know that I enjoyed their work.
I will meet my God. He and He alone will judge my life. He and He alone will set my course from there and I will know all. I will sit at His side and feel the most all-encompassing love. The same love I felt while living as Jo, the sinner and child of God.
I will learn of my purpose here. I will learn of my successes and failures. I will be judged. I will be forgiven every sin and I will know my God. Really know Him.
I will learn what eternity holds for me and what He has laid forth.
Death comes to all who live. We do not usually get to choose where or when. I am ready to die, but not in a hurry to do so. When my time comes I pray that at my funeral at least one person will smile because they knew me and one will cry because they will miss me. That is my idea of a life well lived.
Jo
This is absolutely beautiful. I too believe that heaven will be different for each of us but it will indeed be heaven. And I too am ready to die but not at all in a hurry either! I love my children and my grandbabies so much and I love this life! I love this amazing world we live in and I have so much more living to do!
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful post and I'll be thinking about my heaven as I lay down to sleep tonight.
Thank you so much for this. :)
I think that's a wonderful idea. I enjoyed going full into thinking about what could be waiting for me.
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That's a lovely way to spend eternity. I hope my Dad is my escort and I want to see all my fur babies too.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Darlene. I hope it's your dad also. ♥ Many years from now.
DeleteThis is a beautiful Jo. It's a special thing to have the peace and faith you show here in what your heaven journey will be. Blessings to you.
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DeleteThank you very much. It took a lot of years to find the peace and live in the faith I have now. For many years I was much more restless and unsure of everything, no more.
Blessings right back to you and yours Amy. ♥
Thats pretty cool that your "eternity" will be filled with books and writing!:))))
ReplyDeleteCould it be heaven without books to read and write? Maybe, but not in my imagination.
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What a lovely eternity you plan!! Wonderful write my friend.
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Plan? I guess, but mostly I'm just imagining perfection. Heaven will be perfection, I think.
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When that day comes, many, many years from now, I will both smile and cry. I've always pictured heaven to be a lot like the book and movie What Dreams May Come...that everyone paints their own heaven. Love this, Jo!
ReplyDeleteHave you read the 5 people you meet in heaven? Mitch Albom. It's a small but lovely book. I found as I was reading it, I have always felt much like what the man found his heaven to be.
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Nice post. Are you sure we will ALL experience Heaven? ;)
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I do. The heaven may be very different for some. But yes, I do. ♥
DeleteOh Jo, I like this post. You'll have to check out the movie, What Dreams May Come, it's one of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteThank you Kelly. I will check that movie out I have been told I will love it. ♥
DeleteJo, that was beautifully written and I loved reading it. Thank you so much for sharing, for touching people and for being a genuinely good person. I was at a memorial service yesterday for an incredible person and I hope she finds what you envision. As I saw the hundreds of people sit and listen to stories of her life, I had the thought that I'm in no way ready to die, my kids are too young and there is too much in life that I still want to experience. But when I do pass on, I want my memorial to be filled with laughter. I want everyone who speaks to wear clown shoes. I want to have made a difference in this world. I want my kids to know that I loved them with my whole heart and my whole being.
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--Mike Adams
http://reasonable-thought.blogspot.com
Thank you so much Mike. I have already made a difference, I gave birth to two wonderful people and have interacted with a million or more people in my life and surely one or two of them were changed by knowing me. I know many of them have changed something about me.
DeleteYou have children, you have also changed the world. You have made a difference. Living your life loving those children will be all they need to remember you and your all encompassing love forever.
Bless you and may you have a long and wonderful life. ♥
This was lovely, Jo. And I'm sure that you will inspire both smiles and tears, many of both.
ReplyDeleteThanks Beth...that's really all I ask. Oh, and that my kids don't fight over the $1.98 we plan to leave them to divide between the four of them. ♥
DeleteOne of the things I imagine when I think of what our loved ones will look like, is that they will look like their best selves, to each person who loves them.
ReplyDeleteSo, my mom will look like my mom to me, but to her father, she might look like a little girl, and to her former boyfriends, like a very attractive young woman.
I love that. It makes sense if one believes everyone will experience their own heaven, those who will join others will be the way they were perfect, possibly.
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Thanks for sharing that. ♥
I agree with Bev on this one. I'll be honest, I hadn't thought about but after reading and pondering I'd say we will see what the person we carried in our hearts. Your wandering mind does wander to beautiful places.
ReplyDeleteThanks Brenda. I do love to wander off to lovely places of the heart from time to time. I like Beverly's thinking also. ♥
DeleteWow. There is a lot of thought in this. I particularly like the idea of making amends.
ReplyDeleteIt would also be interesting to know how our lives affected other peoples lives.
I agree about knowing all the people we may have had a good or a negative affect with throughout our lives and never knew about. I am sure there are some.
DeleteThanks for stopping by and welcome back. I'm off to read about your heaven in just a few more clicks!
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