{"id":451,"date":"2007-05-19T03:02:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T08:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=451"},"modified":"2007-05-19T03:02:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T08:02:50","slug":"this-thing-called-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"this thing called &#8220;HEAVEN&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">But when I get where I&#8217;m going<br \/>\nAnd I see my Maker&#8217;s face<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll stand forever in the light<br \/>\nOf His amazing grace<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\" \/>\n<div align=\"left\" \/>\n<div align=\"left\" \/>\n<p align=\"left\">Yeah when I get where I&#8217;m going<br \/>\nThere&#8217;ll be only happy tears<br \/>\nI will shed the sins and struggles<br \/>\nI have carried all these years<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll leave my heart wide open<br \/>\nI will love and have no fear<br \/>\nYeah when I get where I&#8217;m going<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t cry for me down here<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\" \/>\n<div align=\"left\" \/>\n<p align=\"left\">~<em>When I Get Where I&#8217;m Going<\/em>~<br \/>\nBrad Paisley &#038; Dolly Parton<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\" \/>\n<div align=\"left\" \/>\n<p align=\"left\">________________________________________<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\" \/>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>For whatever reason, I have had my mind on this thing called &#8220;HEAVEN&#8221; over the last few days. I just got an audio book that I am super excited to listen to called, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Heaven-Randy-C-Alcorn\/dp\/0842379428\">HEAVEN<\/a>&#8221; by Randy Alcorn. Have any of you read it? I&#8217;ve only listened to the first 10 minutes or so but I&#8217;ve already been challenged. Based on my personal journey as a Christian I know I&#8217;ve failed to explore the Bible&#8217;s teaching of this place. I have not given our eternal dwelling place deserving attention.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\" \/>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>How about you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\" \/>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>I am no theologian but I am on a mission to learn more about Heaven. Here are a few questions for open discussion. I thought it would be interesting to see everyone&#8217;s perspective. Just chime in if you have ANY thoughts at all.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<ol>\n<li>What do you think Heaven will be like?\n<ul>\n<li>a never-ending church service?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Are you looking forward to Heaven?\n<ul>\n<li>or are you fearful?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Where do you think Heaven is?\n<ul>\n<li>somewhere here on earth? up in the sky?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Do you think will we be ourselves?<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Will we know each other as we are now?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><strong>Any other thoughts?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"TT\"><span class=\"redletter\">&#8220;Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust<span class=\"refs\"><span class=\"ref3\"> <\/span><\/span>in God, trust also in me.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TT\"> In my Father&#8217;s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there<span class=\"refs\"><span class=\"ref1\"> to prepare a place for you.<\/span> <span class=\"TT\">And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back<span class=\"refs\"><span class=\"ref3\"> a<\/span><\/span>nd take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.<\/span><span class=\"TT\">&#8221;  John 14:1-3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinsoul.com\/virbstuff\/feedicon_sm.gif\" \/> for more to read subscribe to my <a href=\"http:\/\/pinkhairedgirl.net\/?feed=rss2\">RSS feed<\/a>. (:<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But when I get where I&#8217;m going And I see my Maker&#8217;s face I&#8217;ll stand forever in the light Of His amazing grace Yeah when I get where I&#8217;m going There&#8217;ll be only happy tears I will shed the sins and struggles I have carried all these years And I&#8217;ll leave my heart wide open&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=451\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">this thing called &#8220;HEAVEN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-box-of-chocolates","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}