Many Christians crave to be like Jesus. It has something to do with being spiritual or Spirit filled. For many years I envisioned a being that had his head in the clouds, his heart in heaven and his feet in the world. For my mother it had to do with Bible reading, prayer and abstaining from everything she considered sinful or worldly. My brother, by natural birth, believed that feeling high, talking in strange tongues and praising the Lord was being spiritual. There is some truth in the three of us; but none of us qualified in being that extra terrestrial creature.

In difficult times, we wish we were in heaven. We imagine that in heaven all things shall be set right. Perhaps we may even believe that in that eternal life Jesus promised, we shall fare much better than we did on earth? I am apprehensive for not having listened to Jesus' explanation of life in heaven.