Saturday after Ash Wednesday
Where does heaven happen? Heaven has to do with eating and drinking at the banquet of God. And, a surprise, many strange guests are invited - even you and I!
Heaven
The gates of heaven are an allegory
and only symbol shapes it's guarded door,
nor does the soul plunge headlong into glory
without a rumor of a light before.
Though God, indeed, has reservoirs of morning
whose unguessed joy we distantly extol,
yet word and choice are altering and adorning:
heaven is something happening in the soul.
Jessica Powers
Heaven happens in the soul. It is there that we encountered God in unique ways. There darkness yields to light; there sadness gives way to “unguessed joy”; there even our failures are transformed into strange glories.
What is happening in your soul these first four days of Lent?
Who sits at your table?
Is it a heavenly experience?
An excerpt from Ashes to Easter: Lenten Meditations by Robert F. Morneau
