First Moments in Heaven: Relationships
Soul, I think that when you first get to heaven you’ll recognize all the people you’ve known who are there. You’ll be amazed at the beauty, complexity, and depth of each one. Their gifts and pleasures you experienced on the Old Earth will wisp away into distant memory because of the Real Him/Her. A person’s slapstick humor will leave you rolling hysterically on the ground, a tongue-in-cheek comment will fill your entire body with a slanted pleasure, a play on words will spiral into an exploration of connections/meanings/allusions/metaphors that could take an eternity to plumb.
Someone’s unorthodox intellect will suck you in like a whirlpool – confused, then startled, then amazed. You’ll experience all of the warmth and joy and gifts of your friends and family without the tarnish of pretending, anxiety about acceptance, ego-boosting motives. Every encounter will surpass the most enjoyable, pleasant, surprising “This is what life should be” moments of your Old Earthly life. No barriers. No worries. No wiles.
But New People will have capacities to relate to one another that are impossible in the old bodies, barely imaginable: Unity, acceptance, bodily, intellectual, emotional, spiritual exploration with others in complete purity and freedom and confidence and deference and harmony. You will fearlessly, joyfully, shamelessly intertwine with heaven’s occupants in ecstasy, silent agreement, intellectual sparring, physical contests….never ending interaction swallowed, bathed, encompassed by the Eternal’s love. Holy. Exciting. Pure.
Someone’s unorthodox intellect will suck you in like a whirlpool – confused, then startled, then amazed. You’ll experience all of the warmth and joy and gifts of your friends and family without the tarnish of pretending, anxiety about acceptance, ego-boosting motives. Every encounter will surpass the most enjoyable, pleasant, surprising “This is what life should be” moments of your Old Earthly life. No barriers. No worries. No wiles.
But New People will have capacities to relate to one another that are impossible in the old bodies, barely imaginable: Unity, acceptance, bodily, intellectual, emotional, spiritual exploration with others in complete purity and freedom and confidence and deference and harmony. You will fearlessly, joyfully, shamelessly intertwine with heaven’s occupants in ecstasy, silent agreement, intellectual sparring, physical contests….never ending interaction swallowed, bathed, encompassed by the Eternal’s love. Holy. Exciting. Pure.