What Are We Going to Do There?

 If we knew what heaven was like, we'd fall all over ourselves wanting to get in.  But what are we going to do once we get there?  Are we just going to stand around praising God?  My wife posed this question to me not long ago and it got me thinking about what heaven would be like.  I once said if you got ten thousand theologians in a room to describe heaven, all their thoughts together won't equal heaven.  Some like fishing.  Some like golf.  Some, like myself, enjoy being alone smoking my pipe.

Someone told Bully Graham once he didn't want to go to heaven unless it had golf courses.  Bully Graham said if golf courses were needed they'd be there.  I said yesterday religion was like insurance just in case.  I don't know.  But in some ways, the way my wife thought about it seemed boring.  Boredom won't exist in heaven.  Maybe we'd become Angels for the New Creation.  I have no idea.  But sometimes for some life on earth is a kind of hell.  I can live without sorrow.  

But my wife raised an interesting question that made heaven sound boring.  Boredom is a kind of hell.  I don't see boredom in heaven.  But what do I see?  Just that once we are there we'll be happy to be there.  I don't think about what we'll do.  Time won't exist, and boredom is about how we spend time.

But what is eternity?  We cant wrap our finite minds around the concept of eternity.  What does "forever" even mean?  I wish I had an answer for her, because in her thinking it does sound boring.  I have to agree that it does.  But boredom involves time.  We need time for at least a little boredom.  But would heaven be boring?  I wish i had an answer.  But maybe boredom doesnt exist in heaven.  Boredom involves time.  

Here on earth we think about how we'll spend our time.  But the alternative is eternity in hell.  That doesn't appeal to me either.  I'll let God figure out what we'll do when we get there.  All I know is we would rather be there than any place else.  Meanwhile I'll let God figure it out and I'll smoke my pipe.  Today it is my Dunhill with Dave's Special Blend and my coffee is Blue Bottle Coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave