Heaven is..............

Have you ever wondered about this "place" called Heaven? Is it really a place in the sky somewhere, surrounded by clouds with angels flying around ? Well, thats how its always portrayed in pictures and movies. I believe its a place very much like our earth with trees and rivers and flowers BUT with one big difference.............the souls "inhabiting" it. Forget the concept of angels and flying around with wings on your back............that's Hollywood. I believe we will not have physical bodies and one "concept" that will be totally different will be the concept of space and time. How often have you heard people say especially us Christians that when someone dies we will meet again in heaven. Many times we think in terms of what we understand that to mean here on earth. We expect that the people we meet in heaven will be exactly the same as when we had last remembered them to be before they died. Will we meet grandpa as he was when he died , all old and decrepid ? He died when I was 6 years old so how will he recognize me now that I'm a lot older? I think we will "meet" as souls. The meeting will be the meeting of memories. It will be 2 souls meeting and they can meet as children, young adults or old people; it doesn;t really matter then will it? Time and space will have little meaning because your soul can be anywhere at anytime. Think about the concept of "beam me up Scotty" on Star Trek. You can be anywhere , anytime with whoever you want to be with. You can be 10, 50 , 100 places at the same time.
So if there's a heaven is there a hell ? I want to think that there'll be more of a "holding" place where people may be given the chance to "redeem" themselves. Maybe that's where reincarnation comes in. Maybe we will get reborn if we aren;t good enough for heaven. Have you ever thought maybe our lives on earth are our own "hellish" experience. Our lives on earth are a chance to do good and maybe redeem ourselves. So, could earth actually be Hell? Well, maybe not Hell but Purgatory where we're supposed to "redeem" ourselves. Which then begs the question......so why do some die at child birth ( a mistake?) and some live to be 100 ? So will we be reborn as cockroaches? I dont know. It'll be kind of difficult to redeem yourself if you came back as a cockroach. Which brings us right back to the age-old question of the meaning of life. What are we doing here? There must be a reason why we're here. I guess that'll be another posting..................