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Mike: Sometimes it seems we humans have cooked up for ourselves this wonderful panacea that awaits us, and it looks like we are setting ourselves up for
disappointment.
LIZ: But then we won't be aware of disappointment, will we?
MIKE: We don't have every want and need satisfied on earth, so why should everything be satisfied in heaven?
LIZ: Indeed, why?
MIKE: If people do good deeds on earth, will they have a reward in heaven compared to those who don't do good deeds?
LIZ: Is a good deed worth its own doing? Do good deeds need rewards? When people jump into a river to save a drowning person, do they first take the time to count the cost...the reward?
MIKE: Will it make any difference if someone is rewarded in a land where all your needs and desires are met?
LIZ: Have you ever read C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce? This book will give you a whole new frame of reference for heaven...one of my favorite books from the beginning of this "journey."
MIKE: Are people brought closer to God as their reward?
LIZ: Ah...good question. I'd say, Yes, if being closer to G-D is its own reward. Living a more selfless life, I think, brings us closer to the IS-ness of it all.
I hope you know that your struggle is fascinating (in a good, not voyeuristic, way) to us. We all think further because of your questions.
Liz
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