From childhood, many of us may have had our own pictures of what heaven would be like. Just to date myself, I’ll tell you that my parents used to play a Heritage Singers kids’ album on eight-track that talked about the cute animals and heroic Bible characters we’ll get to hang out with once inside the pearly gates. Sometimes informal discussions with friends about what heaven would include turned to food and all the amazing things we could pick and eat straight off the source. I even had a friend whose hatred of peaches inspired her to assert boldly that her section of heaven would never include peach trees.
Of course, reunions with friends and loved ones ranks pretty high on the list of so many things to look forward to. But I think I’m most excited about getting the answers to all my questions. As a journalist, the backstory behind everything means just as much to me as the story in front of my face.
I imagine Jesus sitting with me and pulling up a high-def LCD screen that plays the movie of my life. And in it will be all the scenes that I never saw in the earth version of my epic. I will finally see where He was with me on any number of occasions, and I will understand why things happened the way they happened.
That thought gives me so much peace. I don’t need to know now, because I will someday.
I will someday. And in that phrase lies my hope.
Heaven will be the sight of all things unseen to us in this life.
Worth the wait, don’t you think?
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Wilona Karimabadi is an assistant editor of the Adventist Review and editor of KidsView. This article was published November 10, 2011.
