What will heaven be like? What some people say: a discussion

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What one of these people said:
"One thing a mentor of mine told me is that heaven will be like “scoring the winning goal in overtime of the championship game, jumping into a pool on a hot day, taking your shoes off after a long day of work, walking into the door of your big family Christmas, taking a drink of water after being thirsty for hours, seeing the mountains or the ocean for the first time, seeing your first child born, and laughing until it hurts your sides–all wrapped up into one forever and ever…”
 
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Also, since heaven is a vast place filled with angels, it would be never boring. To feel love all around would help heal a broken heart. Maybe to enjoy the flowers and butterflies, pet your dog once again, never experience loneliness and be welcomed by God to join His saints.
 
I always think of the lines from Zachariah: that we will be “free to worship Him without fear, holy and righteous in His sight.” I think of heaven as a tremendous sense of freedom, and the wonderful feeling of worshiping God in that freedom and joy with others.
 
As a child I wondered a lot what Heaven was like. At some point in my late teen or early adult years I had 2 dreams that I have always thought were God giving me a little preview. In one of them I could fly or, more correctly, walk on air so when I went to walk from my church to my family home I could cover a normal 15-20 minute walk in like 2 steps and I was walking in the air above the rooftops and phone poles. My family was around and I had a general feeling of great euphoria. I had not had any mood-altering substances and the feeling vanished upon waking up. I know flying dreams are supposed to be common and my father told me he had them when young, but I don’t recall ever having another dream anything like this one or even another flying dream.

I also had another dream where I could and did dance like the best Broadway show dancer crossed with a Chinese acrobat. My body would just do whatever I wanted it to with no fatigue and hardly any effort. I felt very euphoric in that dream too. I would note that I have had a grand total of about 2.5 years of dance instruction in my life and was so unathletic and hopeless at gymnastics, I couldn’t do a basic somersault as a child and lost the ability I had to do cartwheels by age 10.

I have always felt these dreams were God answering my question and showing me what it would be like to be in a glorified body and happy with him.
 
Yes, how fun it will be to have a glorified body! We can pop in and out places like Jesus did after the Resurrection 🙂
 
Sometimes I lie awake at night fearing that the afterlife if boring. That, I would lose all my individuality and free will. That no adventure will be possible because we already have everything.
 
For me, heaven means a stone cottage by the sea, a library with an endless supply of the best books, and many cats for companions. The weather will always be perfect which, again for me, will mean heavy overcast, light drizzle, wind, and cold temperatures. The tea following my afternoon stroll to the headland will be the best ever, the hearth and fire perfect, the late night of reading and ale an occasion to look forward to daily.

Of course, all these things represent the best of the human life and may well be meaningless in the hereafter. But they are what I think of when laying awake at night waiting to fall asleep.
 
I am sure we are to think of heaven as endless, perfect Love, but having known little to nothing about what that means here on Earth it is very hard to imagine. I’m with you CelticWarlord on the stone cottage by the sea; I already have the supply of great books, the cats, the fireplace, and the lousy weather 🙂
 
I second that. It is fine to speculate but to see God face to face will exceed all expectations.
 
I imagine that heaven will be to finally experience what it is to be loved.

💕 :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: 💕 :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: 💕
 
The Church says that the marriage communion is a foretaste of heaven in this life and that is what I hope for too.

CCC1642 … "Just as of old God encountered his people with a covenant of love and fidelity, so our Savior, the spouse of the Church, now encounters Christian spouses through the sacrament of Matrimony."149 Christ dwells with them, gives them the strength to take up their crosses and so follow him, to rise again after they have fallen, to forgive one another, to bear one another’s burdens, to "be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ,"150 and to love one another with supernatural, tender, and fruitful love. In the joys of their love and family life he gives them here on earth a foretaste of the wedding feast of the Lamb

Even when earthly communion doesn’t live up to those standards, you can still experience them in the longing for it.

That is my hope for heavenly life.
 
I would only add the word perfectly to the end of your sentence, Gertabelle. 🙂
 
I bet in heaven you never reach the edges of your vocal range trying to sing the Gloria. I’m always changing octaves and being like, what are you doing to me cantors?! Here on Earth.
 
I believe we’ll be like the angels, worshipping God all day & serving creation.
 
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