Beyond Imaginable...

Well, I was going through some files recently, and found this draft of an intended post. Typed it up in August…or maybe October? Might as well post it!!

Oh, goodness me. I need to write a bit, here and there…about this and that. Mmm, I’m not entirely sure where I am going with this, but my whole initial point is to merely take up sometime this morning. It’s interesting actually – trying to fill in time. What is time really besides just a few seconds. Why is it that sometimes our human brains can go two hours in agony, and boredom, while another two hours fly on by? Goodness, why is that? There are many things I wish I could be able to describe a bit better. Time is one of those topics I don’t think I feel remotely confident in. Are we even justified to tell time?

Okay, getting to the core of things, try breathing in and out, which takes some expansion of time. Or perhaps you should observe the day, as it passes. Surely the sun rises and sets. Our clocks go round and round. Weeks go by and by. Seasons start changing. It’s interesting to me, how much people do to fill in the time. I wonder if there is anything direct about the way people tend to go about accomplishing tasks, or are we all just sheep in a flock? What are people filling their mind with? Each and every person is unique, different clothing, voices, hair. People are unique, so what are people doing with their lives that are oh so even more unique. What do you think about on a daily basis?

I’m sitting inside a little coffee shop on some corner of the block in Portland. My mind just started going on little rabbit trails, to fill in this time I have. Perhaps this is all to keep myself busy….perhaps this whole typing thing is intentional, I’m not really sure the reasons nor, where the inspiration comes from. I’m rambling, I know, but here’s another thought that I have been craving to write down, but I won’t be able to post this until a later day….

A friend from a small group asked me a question last week, and to be honest, it completely impacted me to continue exploring the wonders of the wandering mind. The question, she asked, “Do you think we’ll have quiet time with God when we get to heaven?”

First off, I must say, I love questions like this. It builds my faith, and perspective on things. And it also gives me some confirmation that I am not the only one who thinks such things. I am a deliberate debater; whether or not I always chose to stir up conflict, I debate within my brain. It’s rather annoying, but it keeps me alive, and fills in the time. Obviously, there is self-control, and I do not allow my mind to wander any place that it pleases.

Okay, so maybe you are not interested in what my answer was to my friend in our conversation, yet, you must deal with it; I am going to anyway, because I am not only giving you my thought but also my expanded thought of what I said in the moment.

My own experience in scripture, prayer, education, and through other teachers, I feel that ultimately heaven is going to be beyond what we can imagine. We do not use our whole brains, we are merely human, with fleshy-flesh – we do not hold all the answers. However, I do believe, that we should think about what we think upon the most glorious thing we could picture heaven to be. After all, God has placed imagination within our brains; I believe that imagination has purpose. 

So continue imagining the glorious thing we could picture in our brains what heaven will be like. Now, imagine something much more glorious. Once you are in that state of mind, concentrate and come up with something (scripturally based of course) of what you see as heaven. This idea must be the vastest image you can think of, so hold onto it! 

That image, perspective, day dream - whatever you consider it to be - is only a small fraction of what heaven is actually like. So imagine, without picturing, that heaven is beyond the way your brain has imagined.

Are you blown away?

Because I sure have been....