Refusing Heaven

Heaven is good, but we are so attached to this imperfect world. Without pains, agonies, worries, and tears, how are we supposed to feel the comfort, delight, satisfaction, and laughter offered by life. I don't want to wait for heaven while I can live this life to the fullest. Don't waste another second of your life waiting, loitering, go, buy a delicate journal and start to write down a list of things you want from this life and set out to achieve those dreams, live your life, so that when our final day comes, we can say to the Lord that we are so content with this life that we have lived the heaven.

"Sure, it's tough ... we're all gonna die... there are a lot of injustice in the world, but what a bargain! if you balance it out, what a balance! a lot of things I don't like, I don't like the fact that my hair is thinning, I don't like the fact that two of the women I loved died. but what a wonderful privilege to be allowed to breath, to see, to feel, to smell, to love, as baffling the swiftness of what we are allowed..."

- Jack Gilbert