My Brown Heaven, Phyllis Hartsell
“In church (on) Sunday… I often daydreamed… Playing in my mind, I would sit on fluffy clouds, floating in a very blue sky just like the Littlest Angel… I would float down to my beloved earth where I would ride ponies, chase my Daddy’s birddog, Hambone, or… Eventually, Mama tugged on me to sit my little backside on the little pew in the real world of love and sin.”

In the Presence of God, Jim Stenhouse
“I envision Heaven as where God is… But then, I believe we can also be in the presence of God while we are alive. I can ask God to join me daily, to help guide my thoughts and actions… I view heaven as being in the presence of God…Can we be in the presence of God now, here, today?”

Life is like a Sea, Megan Matilda Bennett (written at age 7)
Life is like a sea,
Sometimes it’s rough,
Sometimes it’s smooth, but whatever it is,
You’ve got to keep on rowing until land,
And land is heaven.

One-Stop Heaven, Joan Lafleur
“Almost all of my personal encounters with the divine have been surprising. They have occurred in unlikely places, by conventional religious standards, often among crowds of humanity in school cafeterias, hospital wards, or shopping malls. So, maybe I shouldn’t have been too shocked when I had a suspicion I had entered the gates of heaven a few weeks ago as I walked into my neighborhood Super Wal-Mart. However, I was surprised by an unexpected, overwhelming awareness that heaven could be like this assemblage of diverse human beings converging in one place for a common purpose.”

Heaven, Genie Cotner
She knows what it takes to get there.  My daughter says…
There will be chocolate-covered peanut butter balls…
and she’ll never get full…She looks to me to see
my response, expecting some diatribe…
Instead, I smile and say she knows
as much about heaven as any other person
living on this earth.
She is at first puzzled, then bolstered
by the thought that on this
she can’t be proven wrong.