A Life-Changing Thought

One of my priests at school presented our book study group with a life-changing thought this evening.

It's something that I never truly thought about or stopped to consider, though it makes so much sense.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

Heaven is wherever God is.

You're probably thinking "Of course it is. I know that."

That's what I thought, too. But let's think about it.

If Heaven is where God is, then Heaven starts now. If Heaven is where God is, then Heaven is within you. If Heaven is within you, then where you are is where Heaven is.

You know that verse about how your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit?

The temple of the Holy Spirit is Heaven.

Heaven is where God dwells. By the virtue of your Baptism, the Spirit of God dwells in you.

When you have the Spirit of God in your Soul, you have Heaven within you.

Furthermore, in the Lord's Prayer, we pray that God's will be done on earth as it is done in Heaven. In Heaven, there is no death. There is no sickness. There is no evil. There is no anxiety. There is no fear. When we are in Heaven we will not need to worry about any of these things. It also means that God wills for these things to be done on earth as well. It was not only the earliest Christians that were called to heal the sick and raise the dead. After all, just as they had Jesus in the flesh, so do we. Their Baptism and Confirmation are the same as our own.

Finally, Just something for you to ponder tonight... how differently would we live our lives if we lived like Heaven was within and around us all the time? How would we treat those around us? Our bodies? Our mind? How would we pray? Work? Study?

If we truly recognized that anywhere that God dwells is Heaven, how could we NOT become Saints?!