Do you daydream about Heaven? [physically]

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Smells at the heavenly ranch: spring rain, lilacs, incense, a fireplace, baking bread and cookies. Sounds: the fireplace crackling, and mostly nature sounds: running water in the stream, breezes through the trees, rustling grasses and leaves; cats purring; the horse, sheep, border collie, and bird sounds, esp mockingbirds, they sing an amazing variety of notes.

The Taize Laudate Dominum sung by a church full of people made me think that’s what heavenly choruses of praise would sound like. :harp:

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Sunflower15 said:
In that case, does anyone have preconceived notions of what Heaven will be like? Physically?

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just like here, but no pollution, the people will be a lot nicer, and our bodies will be perfect (the extra 50 pounds having been burned out in purgatory, which I think of as a really brutal health spa).
 
I always imagine heaven as a cluster of places that give me peace. For example, part would be the area around my grandparent’s house and my house, where God and Jesus and Mary and the saints walk in and out just like my family does. Another part looks like this hallway in the Hermitage museum farm2.static.flickr.com/1195/3167436511_ec50eb780e.jpg…the whole Hermitage museum, in fact. There are tiny villiages like this one shafferfineart.com/Gantn-0127-36x48sm.jpg where you can stop in and talk to a saint or a relative. There will be a place where God waits to talk to people, and He always has time for you. There will be gardens decorated all ways and huge, rolling plains and hills that we can fly over. I also believe God lets us help people on Earth or be guardian angels.
Of course my family wil be there with me, and my friends!

This is a really interesting topic, isn’t it? 😉
 
GEddie said:
About smells:

Some years back, out of nowhere, I smelled an overpowering sweet scent something like incense; I asked my mom (who was right there) if she smelled it; she did not…

Then, a month ago, I was in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem… and amazingly the same scent. Might this be one of the smells of Heaven???

Astronauts in the shuttle or International Space Station often report being surprised by the “smell of space.” None of us, not being astronauts, are likely to perceive this smell in our lives… but mebbe with our Heavenly noses!!!

ICXC NIKA:)
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Oh boy, I can just hear my Dad sneezing right now, lol!

This is a fun thread. I wonder if Jesus will pull up this thread and show us when we’re in Heaven and we’ll all have a good laugh. 😃

Whenever I talk to Jesus in prayer, I talk about all of my “plans” when I get to Heaven. I imagine me and Jesus sitting in a massive grassy meadow with streams and flowers and asking Him a million and one questions. And He’ll tell me all about His life on earth, his childhood, stories about life with the Apostles, He’ll tell me all about His mom! And it will be so awesome to actually hear His voice. Can you imagine how cool it will be to hear what His voice sounds like?! Can’t wait. 👍
 
I sometimes think about Heaven as a time and place where I lose my worries, fears and troubles. It seems my allergies are flaring up almost all the time (like right now, today in particular). I worry about the health and welfare of my wife and kids, (they are not Catholic). I am concerned about giving into sin and temptation. I listen to the news, and there is war, and crime and injustice, unemployment.

I wonder if I am doing the right things and all I can do to help others. It seems like every time I turn around something breaks at home and needs repairs. The lawn needs to be mowed, dishes washed, the house is a mess… things need to be done at home, at work, in the community.

I know compared to most others, I have it easy. I count my blessings and I’m very thankful for all God’s blessings, but with it all there is still so much strife and struggle. I think of Heaven as a safe haven from all the hassles and troubles of this world, and I think it will be like a huge stone being lifted from my back, or a calm harbor beyond the raging waves of a stormy sea. Heaven is peace and love, everything that is missing from here.

Most of all I think of Heaven as finally knowing for sure, God is there and I have finally reached home to see all my family and friends again.

Physically, I think of Heaven as a beautiful meadow with wonderful flowers and warm sunshine. Birds and animals singing and beautiful soft music.
 
I love this thread! I’m about to wax poetical, so be warned…

For me, the most vivid image of heaven is a city of “pure gold, clear as glass” (Revelation 21:18) - I imagine buildings transparent as ice sculptures, lacy and intricate in decoration, with a faint golden tint. The streets are paved with gemstones, also clear with coloured tints, and everything is transparent so that the white-golden light of God permeates everywhere.

At the heart of the city is the throng of angels and saints. My image of this is directly linked to World Youth Day in Sydney last year. I was in an area of Randwick Racecourse that was near the stage, and many times I looked over my shoulder at the crowd behind me: thousands upon thousands upon thousands of faces, fading into the distance so far that most were only silhouettes. All cheering, dancing, clapping and shouting “Ben-e-dicto!” and all overjoyed to be there. It was exhilarating. I’d never been in a crowd that big or that noisy before - although later, the vigil was so utterly silent that all you could hear were the cameras whizzing overhead on their wires - and I remember thinking at the time that heaven had to be something like this. (Minus the overflowing wheelie bins and port-a-johns, of course!)

What else? My first-ever Tridentine Mass a few years ago, at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, with a full choir. The hymn after Communion was in Latin from the Gospel of Matthew, and it was unbelievable. The basses rumbled at the bottom, the altos and tenors kept the song steady, and the sopranos’ voices rose and rose and rose. I thought, “They’re going for that top note…” and at the exact second I anticipated the note, they hit it strongly and perfectly - and so did the bell in the tower above. That’s probably the one instant of my life in which I absolutely lost myself in worship, and so that’s how I imagine heaven.
 
I had a friend growing up who always said that he thought upon entering the gates of Heaven one would be able to hear the Canon [Pachelbel’s] …

It is very beautiful…what do you guys think? Is there an ‘overall’ music everyone can hear upon entering?

Or is it more like birds chirping and nature sounds?

I suppose our senses will actually work correctly and be heightened [since these will not be under the concupiscence restrictions caused by the Fall]. 🙂

I picture everyone being able to enjoy through their senses…the blind see all the vibrant colors, the deaf hear all the minute distinctions in music and nature and conversation, etc.

Heaven MUST be a glorious place! LITERALLY! no pun intended, though!:D]
 
Overall music? Lord, please don’t let there be elevator Musak. 🙂
Must have JS Bach, The Moldau (Smetana) while I am walking by the stream on my ranch, some Strauss, Gregorian chant. All liturgial music in general, and of course those angels singing Gloria and Sanctus… 🙂 :harp::heaven::harp:
 
a place where we shall bnever be tempted to do evil things
a place where we shall never hurt Our Lord again
a place where we shall be under God’s mercy

you can meet Jesus in person
the poor of the earth have mansions
the hungry have food and the thirsty have drink
where the sick are healed
the lame can dance
the retarded can be accepted
no wars
no fear of hell
lots of music
blessed victims of violence
blessed victims of abortion
 
Overall music? Lord, please don’t let there be elevator Musak.
Must have JS Bach, The Moldau (Smetana) while I am walking by the stream on my ranch, some Strauss, Gregorian chant. All liturgial music in general, and of course those angels singing Gloria and Sanctus…
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elevator music! hahaha 😃
i like digireedoos!
 
I think I believe that Heaven will be the “New Earth” to the point where it will essentially be like earth, only an earth free of sin and death. Every type of place we have on earth - mountains, ranches, beaches, meadows, and so on - will be there. People will continue to make art, sing praise, and enjoy life much as they do here on earth - but without the imperfections to our perception and judgement that we suffer here. Everyone will be freed from worry, and will be comfortable in the love of their King and their Father. People will work when they want to, rest when they desire, and everything will happen when it needs to, by God’s great Will.

Jesus will have a throne room that anyone can visit whenever they want to. The atmosphere will not be a constant wave of awe and glory, although those things will be there, but rather an atmosphere of love - like being at home with family, only everywhere is now home, and everyone is family. And Christ the King’s presence will not be frightening and overwhelming, but rather as comfortable and natural as a perfect older brother who cares for His younger siblings. Since we will have given Him our hearts, there will no longer be any reason to be ashamed, fearful, or to feel unworthy of Him. We will simply accept and treasure His love “like a child rests in his mother’s arms” - only more perfectly than any love flows in this world.
 
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Jesus will have a throne room that anyone can visit whenever they want to. The atmosphere will not be a constant wave of awe and glory, although those things will be there, but rather an atmosphere of love - like being at home with family, only everywhere is now home, and everyone is family. And Christ the King’s presence will not be frightening and overwhelming, but rather as comfortable and natural as a perfect older brother who cares for His younger siblings.
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Interesting…that you think it will be like paradise lost again, but better. 😉

You know, I imagine Jesus on a throne sometimes…but I can only imagine Him sitting for a short while…it was just not His style to sit on a throne and be adored…you know, He seemed to like walking around and meeting people in the streets, and then going to the sea or the desert, and so forth…Him sitting down for all eternity…I just can’t imagine Him like that…strange, no?

BTW, I like your name…Longing for Light…in fact, that is why I’m Sunflower…they aren’t the prettiest flowers, but they are my favorite because they move about and seek light, and refuse to stay in darkness if it happens to fall on them…they’ll gyrate until they find light again…😃
 
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