The joys of the afterlife!

"They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise."

I love to think about death. While many find the topic morbid, I have always been perhaps in the minority of the population that could not be more excited for it. It is because in the grand scheme of life, I believe time on Earth is finite. It is but a speck of dust when you think of what is to come, through the marvels of God, to which all the beauties of the world cannot begin to compare. Heaven is the pinnacle of our relationship with Christ coming alive, being raised to new heights. If we but cultivate His graces through our life here on Earth, in the next with Christ there will be infinite joy. Could anything be more glorious? 

Yet God has given us free will. With this, we must choose life with Him, by making the right choices while we still can here on Earth. C.S. Lewis said "If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mudpies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by an offer of a holiday at the sea."

Regarding Heaven, another Catholic writer, Frank Sheed, provided further description of Heaven, and that its experience will not be equal for all, but a reflection of what we cultivate in this life. It will be "As high as our cooperation with grace in this life has made it. It is in this life that the soul grows; every piece of truth, every channel of grace, can be used by us, if we will, for growth. Whatever capacity the soul has grown to at death, that capacity will be filled in the glory and joy of heaven."

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