What's on the other side of the table of contents?

I'm on a quest, a mission, a journey, a discovery, an adventure, to find out what Heaven is like.  It all started with the Sunday school lesson that I'm attending at church where we were talking about Heavenly rewards.  So, anyway while talking about Heaven,  I began to wonder what is Heaven really like.  Too often we hear of clouds and little fat babies in diapers with wings, which we call angels.  I hear people tell me that we will have all our questions answered without having to ask, some have said we won't know/care about our friends and love ones because all we will do is worship God (which automatically means singing in light of today's interpretation of worship (don't get me started on this ))in the throne room all the time 24/7 for eternity/  To be honest I'm not so sure, these teachings of Heaven don't exactly make me think of Heaven.  I know I have started this conversation with other people but it on my heart as something I need to explore.  I've learned in college that it is okay to question things you have been taught because relying on someone else's opinions just doesn't always cut it.  I want to know why I believe something I believe. (somethings that have changed for me in college is my opinion of eschatology, war, patriotism, capital punishment, asparagus, being green, alcohol, homelessness, among other things) The best place to research the truth of this question is The One (and no we aren't talking Neo or Matrix) who is preparing it.  In these "conversations" I have had already, a friend shared with me the a section from C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, "

"And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and title page: now at last they were beginning Chaper One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning."

I understand that we will worship God but I just want to know how.  I also understand that trying to articulate Heaven will be hard and will be severely lacking in a complete accurate description.  Nevertheless I want to explore this mystery (knowing in the end it will still be mystery) in order to have an opinion of what Heaven is like.   

So I really won't get into my findings yet but thought I would give who a sneak peak at what I'll be blogging about later.  Stay tuned as we take glance at the mere "table of contents" the Bible gives us about the Kingdom of Heaven (the one which is to come and the Kingdom that is being built now!)

Rewind Time... Cause it's Moving to Fast

wow, time flies and i wish it would stop! okay maybe not stop that would just be an epically bad game of freeze tag, slow down sounds better.  t-minus 28 days and my life as a college student is over. there are so many laughs, places, and friends that will will left at bpc( i hope we will stay in touch and i mean i little more than just facebook chat).  there is so much i would have done differently and so many things i would do over in a heartbeat. for instance i would have never left living on campus, i would have worked less, i would have gotten out of a particular relationship sooner, and i would have tried to make more friends.(the list goes on and on)  there are friends i have now i wish i could have invested more of my life with and now that there is little time left i am having regrets (i mean schools almost over and we all will go on our own way...which is away) but i guess thats life as it goes on you see the bigger picture and cannot rewrite the past. so now i want to live life regret free, take more risks, pursue things i once and still may be scared of, i long to have abundant life that Jesus talked about... i suppose that starts by soaking up His Word and living out His teaching and the love and excitement He gives will overrun into the relationships and activities of life. i'm excited to see what God has in store (i mean i like surprises don't get me wrong but i have big questions like what am i gonna do in ministry, will i ever get married, will i be a good dad? should i go to seminary? okay back to the blog) and thank Him for what i've been through but i do regret not taking initiative and doing somethings different (is this bad to have regrets?  okay it's not like i'm living in the past, constantly thinking about every mistake or missed opportunity but ever so often these thoughts do creep up) o well time is ticking and well its fixing to be t-minus 27 days better start this no regrets right after i catch some z's
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