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St Peter’s Church Bredhurst Sermons: Heaven |
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Not a sermon but a
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The
shortest sermon on the subject in the world - probably. What is heaven like? What will happen there? Will it be like an everlasting church
service? Anyway, here it is, with fond
memories of Ian who inspired it: Before he died, a friend
asked me about heaven. I never did get
to answer him. What I wished I'd said
was this: Do you remember being in
your Mother's womb, how comfortable, secure and fascinating it was? Every day a new sound, a new touch, a new
sensation. And then came days of
discomfort as you tossed and turned, finally settling upside down, your world
crowding you in, and a terrible sense that it was all for nothing, that there
was no more to learn, no more to grow.
And then pain,
unbearable pain, crying, shouting, and you were pushed from life into the
nothingness of outside. Outside; a place you had
occasionally experienced through sounds. A voice, yes, mostly that voice that
sometimes broke through the swooshing and thump thump thump that was your
world. A voice that you wanted to love
but couldn't quite hear, a voice detached from your life, a voice that you
sometimes feared, sometimes longed for.
The light is dazzling, your lungs burst with delight at the new
sensation of air, but soon all becomes calm.
The light diminishes and your eyes adjust. The warmth returns, the thump thump thump
returns, but everything else has changed.
The swooshing that blocked out all other sound is gone, and you hear
the voice, so clearly, the voice you longed for. And you see her face, the one who has
waited for you, cried for you, laughed with you, suffered for you, and she
speaks to you and you know you are loved, you know that outside is real and
you are safe. And you are still the
same, but transformed, you've cast off your old covering. And this world is so familiar and yet so
totally different; you could never have imagined it or described it, but for
now you relax and sleep. |
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