People you would love to share a campfire with in Heaven
 

For me - it'd be nice to sit and chat with Jesus about all those years we didn't hear about. I'd love to have Jesus, Robin Williams and Einstein all at the same campfire, grilling steaks, drinking wine and such. Jim Croce could play background music for our discussions. I'd have all my former pets keeping us company. Then, it'd be great to take a good long walk with Gandhi. After that I'd play frisbee disc golf forever - creating fantasy disc courses to my heart's imagination and worship God through the love I'd share - forever.

Isaiah 11:9 "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord." :BeamUp: Beem me up Scotty, I'm good to go!

gather 'round... I'd like to toast marshmallows with:

Sherri Tepper, Margaret Atwood, Erica Jong, Maya Angelou, Rita Mae Brown, Anne Rice, Ursula LeGuin, Melissa Scott, Patricia Cornwell, Marian Zimmer Bradley, Vonda McIntyre, and Nicola Griffith.

I think we'd have a rousing discussion.

oh, and we'll be wanting a flock of Chippendales to serve us refreshments.

Jesus. I can only imagine.

CayoKay "oh, and we'll be wanting a flock of Chippendales to serve us refreshments."

Hilarious. Gotta serve somebody - haha:wink:

Goodness, I wonder how Melissa Scott would do without her blackboard though???

the women's version of the 72 virgin thang, I 'spose?

not the pastor Melissa Scott {lol}, I meant the science fiction author...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Scott_%28writer%29

the vast majority of my chosen campfire-mates specialize in speculative fiction, which sometimes explores alternative spirituality.

CayoKay -

OH - THAT Melissa Scott. OK (lol). I agree with the alternative 72 virgin thing - gotta be an equal standard. Actually, whatever God has planned for us in Heaven it'll dwarf, I imagine, any of our expectations.

I do imagine heavenly bodies though, He's promised us that much and - He made us in His own image, so I also imagine sex and everything else - only, without entangled guilt and jealousy and such as we are so entwined with here. Mostly though, just all the time in the world to do and explore all those things we did not get a chance to do here.

Such as fishing or golfing with loved ones, playing with friends, watching sunsets lost and/or rainbows never seen because too much time was spent boxed up in rooms here, typing away at keyboards.

Most of all, no rush to have to do such things as there will be all the time in the universe.

My dad and his harmonica and my brother. I would probably miss having the others tho that still sit around the campfire here on earth with me.

Could I have both?

Sassy "Could I have both?"

Yes, absolutely :hug:

This is easy for me, my mom, just like the old days. We had so many things that we wanted to accomplish but never had the time. I couldn't sleep last night and was going through some things and I found a cookbook she gave me two weeks before she passed away. I have it all wrapped in plastic so it doesn't get ruined. When I open it I can almost smell the food she was making. She signed it...."My dearest BJ, try to be the best cook you can be. I know you'll be a good cook honey because you had a great teacher.

I'd like my dad and my brother to be there. I have a bazillion unanswered questions for both of them.

And Princess Di, my role model. :o

What a sweet thread! I was sad because I couldn't think of anybody but then I decided on my best friend Layne, whom I've never met, my dear mother, and all my beloved collies and of course, Jesus.

This is making me cry.

It's hard to imagine indeed. So glorious and glowing angels we shall all be! Sitting in the presence of Jesus and our loved ones that have gone on before us. It's hard to imagine meeting a grandparent, a great grandparent that we never knew during our time here on earth...yet it's said that we shall "know all whom we meet". Serving Our Lord is what it'll all be about..I wonder if we'll even think of our families here on earth?? I think it won't matter, we'll all be GOD'S servants at that time. With all that is going on stressful in my own life here on earth right now...I feel this inner peace. A feeling that we KNOW can only be the work of the Holy Spirit telling us "God will take care of you". Can you imagine meeting Abraham Lincoln and George Washington? What about all the civil war people...will they know us too? It's such a wonderful feeling!! Thanks for this thread!!!


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Marilyn

I agree, being omnipotent and omniscient, and all, God (and His Heaven) are probably far beyond our mere mortal imaginations.

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/5131/galaxymz4.jpg
Northern Lights

it's always bothered me, because I guess my imagination conjures up a place where we're *spiritual* beings, and are long past the things of the flesh, (food, s*x, drugs, rock 'n roll), and have moved onto a higher plane.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/1...te600x6tk1.jpg
Cartwheel Galaxy - A new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer completes a multi-wavelength, neon-colored portrait of the enormous Cartwheel galaxy.

on the other hand, if one goes by the criteria *certain people* have set, I'm doomed to an eternity being ravaged in the lake of fire.

so maybe dreaming of the possibilities of Heaven (on my part) is wasted effort?

see that lil teensy-tiny DOT? that's us!

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6...xysun05ij7.jpg
Illustration by: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)

so, since God built THAT, Heaven must be AMAZING!

:D

Your welcome Corkbird,

My anchor is in Heaven, my true home and final resting place. Thanks for sharing.

If I knew I was going to win a 100 million dollar lottery a week from now it would probably make the stresses I'd face less stressful.

Knowing that I'm going to Heaven, where 100 million dollars pales in comparison, helps me get through whatever is placed before me. There is reward in Heaven and we are often reminded so in the Bible:

Colossians 3:2 "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."

I find when I do this, first, the rest of my day goes so much easier. Even if it is a mundane 12-hour shift doing piecemeal work, as I have done before; or, a long war tour in desert sands and dust. It's O.K. these things shall pass; but the glory which is with Christ, even now, cannot be taken away.

CayoKay,

Awesome and amazing pictures!!! :hug:

In his book Heaven by Randy Alcorn, he goes on for 550ish pages about our Heavenly bodies and the good things that, continuing from here, will go on forever - and, why wouldn't they.

I mean, if God is good then, therefore, all that is good here would continue and, why not? Randy is humble and doesn't suggest to know all the answers and agrees that everything he writes will not be agreed with - but, it was an interesting book and one of the reasons for this post.

Thanks for the wonderful glimpses. YES, I agree - we are soooooooooooooo
small and there is so much - Eternity will never be boring - for this we can be assured.

A friend of mine asked me: "won't it get boring just worshipping God all the time?"

I said, "Worship takes many forms. If I start, in my backyard, with a clean slate - just mud. Then I plant trees and provide water and create a habitat suitable for all forms of wildlife to thrive and frollick - butterflies and birds and deer and rabbit and such. How would these creatures worship me - their provider?

I mean, they couldn't "speak" to me. But, if they played in my garden - well, that'd be a way to pay homage to me. I would love them the more for it.

I think God does the same with us. He's given us life, life everlasting through His Son. If we love Him with all our heart and mind, and live fully - here, with that hope and expectation of life eternal with him - with gusto and comedy and drama and all that He has given us - then we affirm Him, we worship - for all intensive purposes Him, by such a LIFE.