Are we going to have any free time in Heaven?

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I find it easier to imagine Purgatory and Hell than Heaven as I’m not sure what we will be doing all day. When I read verses like this it makes me think that we will literally be on our knees for eternity but that can’t be can it?

> Revelation 4: 8 Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was studded with eyes all the way round as well as inside; and day and night they never stopped singing: Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God, the Almighty; who was, and is and is to come.’

We won’t marry so there will be no sex, surely we won’t get merry on alcohol so will we be chatting to people and laying in the grass?
 
I think the Beatific Vision will consume all our “free time”. Although, it will be an existence outside of time so maybe we should be pondering that instead.
 
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We won’t marry so there will be no sex, surely we won’t get merry on alcohol so will we be chatting to people and laying in the grass?
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Those aren’t exactly our only three options on ways to spend time.

We will be preoccupied with the Beatific vision, but I wouldn’t take that too literally. That would imply that God is a physical thing that we’d all just sort of stare at. All of the descriptions of Heaven in scripture are our rather clunky human descriptions of what Heaven is actually like. Nothing in our language can adequately describe it - all the imagery in the Bible are mere suggestions, analogies and metaphors a thousand times removed from the real experience.

The best description I’ve ever read of Heaven was CS Lewis chapter on it in the Problem of Pain. The whole chapter is great, but a short excerpt:
“All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it—tantalising glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest—if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself—you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say ‘Here at last is the thing I was made for.”
 
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Depends what you mean by free time…time as we know it won’t exist in heaven…we may see how everything was…is…and will be…all at the same moment
 
We will be reunited with loved ones as well as numerous books and saints testify.

I myself would like to play guitar with Jesus. 🙂
 
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All I know is I want to be with my family for eternity. Maybe we all have telepathy and chat as well as sing, play music and dance in our homes. I wouldn’t get board with telepathy, just listen and talk to someone new.
 
Everything in Heaven is going to be overflowing with love, so I’m not sure if the idea of “work” or “leisure time” will have significance anymore. We will serve in God’s temple forever, but it will never be boring or exhausting: it will be ever ancient but ever new, and God will have a new beauty to reveal to us each moment. Every moment will be work and every moment will be rest and every moment will be free time. It will be far better than we could ever imagine.

Peace.
 
Even though there is no marriage in Heaven I don’t necessarily believe you go separate ways. I know in Heaven everything is how God intended to be, and just because there isn’t anything binding you to your wife in Heaven, I doubt your bond of love disappears, but is fulfilled in the way it was meant to be. Similar to the Divine Comedy when Dante meets the woman he loved who died very young.
 
I don’t think time will exist. I’m mean imagine being able to actually count down eternity… how would that be possible?
 
Just a light work schedule interspersed with eating fine food and sipping wine accompanied by good music to our liking and plenty of reading material. Best of all, no technology, particularly smart phones and the Internet. Family, friends, and pets will be there as well, so I hear.
 
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Maybe you are right, although the Christ does say in scripture in response to the Pharisees question of a woman married multiple times that we are like the angels never given in marriage in Heaven.

Also, I’m a guy but I would imagine to a woman it may be a burden to be married to the same person for eternity. I’m single and celibate due to disability and I don’t find it a burden or difficult. I’ve been in love before in my early twenties, reckless love but as an older adult the love of fiction and movies is never ideal spiritually. Reckless love, which is what I call it because it is filled with emotions and lust, never works out for a family situation. And at this age that’s what I think a marriage is about, having the proper environment for family. It seems too much like an Earthly thing.

Which is why I support the priest vow of celibacy and think that vow should never be broken. It seems like the physical Church and all the orders should be a reflection of something similar to Heaven. Again media and theatre making a big deal out of sex and relationships has gone on for ever. A Catholic Nun advised against it, the media part, in a Wester Classic The Lais of Marie De France


So while I don’t know your age, I find after all my life lessons relationships should never be unequally yoked. What I take from that is they should be rational within means and thought out for the intention of family.

So with that, it would be understandable if there were no marriages or romantic relationships in Heaven. Just a bunch of friendships because no sex is involved. Almost like the whole environment filled with love doesn’t necessitate it.
 
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plenty of reading material.
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Will we also be able to attend classes and do experiments in chemistry labs? Can we have discussions with some of the wise men in history such as Maimonides, Aristotle, Wernher von Braun, Moses, Thomas Jefferson, and Mark Twain, etc., or will that be ruled out?
 
Heaven is an experience which we cannot imagine - we do not have that ability. Therefore, we tend to think of it as earth without bills or ills. Not so!

I could say that it would be like a demerol high, but that is artificial, man-made, and we know its source. We can make many analogies, but all will fall short.

It is the utter amazement of existing in a state of pure love, in the presence of Him Who is pure Love.

In any case, I’m dying to find out.
 
I sure would like to discuss with Jesus the ins and outs of star formation.

I’ve always been fascinated by the stars and astronomy.
 
No need for telepathy I think.

We would be able to understand each other so well it leaves no room for misunderstandings.
 
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