About life in heaven

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If you are currently suffering from severe mental issues and or a physical disability or an illness that is seriously impacting your daily life as well as living with past regrets that you just cant get rid of…do you think that when you die and make it to heaven all that was mentioned above will be vanished ?..i am going through some very difficult moments in life and just wanted assurance bc i feel like the only way this suffering will end is when my soul leaves the body…thank you…also everything you missed out on bc of your illness, will these thoughts dissapear as well?
 
I am sure that you are correct, we will have perfected bodies and minds in heaven. And I believe that the things we missed out on will be restored. **[Joel 2:25] says “I will repay you for the years the
locusts have eaten-”
I am reminded of a poem by Vachel Lindsay, General William Booth Enters into Heaven; (Booth founded the Salvation Army):
Jesus came from out the court-house door,
Stretched his hands above the passing poor.
Booth saw not, but led his queer ones there
Round and round the mighty court-house square.
Yet in an instant all that blear review
Marched on spotless, clad in raiment new.
The lame were straightened, withered limbs uncurled
And blind eyes opened on a new, sweet world.

Here is the link to the poem.
I’ve always liked this, even though it’s not at all low key like much Catholic music.

Praying for peace and comfort for you.
 
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We’ll deal with corruption and imperfections in general throughout this life. Perfection for man comes to the extent that he’s “allied”, so to speak, with God, a relationship which is only fully completed and consummated in the next life. God, Himself, is heaven as I believe Pope Emeritus Benedict once put it. And the ineffable love of that heaven removes all anxiety, anger, sadness, etc and fills us to the brim with the sense of total and uncompromised well-being, peace, unimaginable happiness, etc. As has been been reported by some gifted to receive a “glimpse”. The angst that we all share to one degree or another here on earth is gone; while the perfect order that we already somehow sense and desire is finally realized. We’re truly home at that point.
 
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I’ve always had difficulty with that too.
Suicide is a sin but the mentally ill (who are the most likely to do it) are still judged harshly by most Christians.

Dante’s Divine Comedy is normally the root of this mindset paints all suicides are wrong.

You are not alone.
 
If I understand your question correctly, I think our wounds will be transformed.
Jesus rose with His hands and feet still carrying the wound marks.

Now of course, the wounds of our hearts and souls can be really complicated—somebody wrongs us and we react badly (or well), we have a chemical imbalance and navigate it by making both good and bad choices.
Life is messy, situations escalate, things are said and done.

But when we die in His friendship, He makes all things new.
 
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do you think that when you die and make it to heaven all that was mentioned above will be vanished
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Absolutely. My issues with mental health are with me for a specific purpose; to help me grow spiritually, to learn compassion toward others, to trust in that unseen force which made me, and to teach others with kindness how to overcome the same things I have faced. Once this life is over there will be no need for any of that to remain with me. If it did what sort of heaven would that be?

I don’t feel I’ve missed out on anything at all. In fact my illness, as my doctor pointed out to me many years ago, blessed me with knowing exactly what sort of personality I work with; one which greatly prefers solitude but recognizes the need to interact with others (at least once in a while) 🙂 . Because of this I have felt very little confusion over what I’m doing here and why I have to live on the earth. I wouldn’t trade the worst of my panic attacks and depression for anyone else’s seemingly less intense struggles with life. I live exactly the life I was meant to have and am most content with it today. And if I ever begin to think I’ve been cheated out of one experience or another, I think of the words of Paul in 1 Cor. 2 verse 9; that we cannot even comprehend what heaven will be like it is so far beyond our minds ability to conceptualize.

When this life is done it’s done and we need never look back at the pain and the trials.
 
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Yes there will not be pain or sorrow in Heaven. Seeing God face to face will make everything else irrelevant.
 
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