Heaven is here

Q:What is your vision of heaven? What images - from Scripture, tradition, culture or your personal experience - best describe heaven for you?

For me, Heaven is not out there. it is not beyond the sea, above or beyond us, but the capacity for Heaven lies within us-- the good life, making a difference to others, a sense of the transcendent, a moment of pure joy.

Heaven is not where God sits upon a cloud, in my view, but the sense of where God belongs, in our hearts, in our heads, in our world and beyond it. I do not believe in heaven as 'other', though it has elements of that. Instead, I believe in the capacity of human beings to create heaven for themselves and others here on earth.

By Julia Neuberger | March 25, 2010; 6:18 AM ET Save & Share:
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