A few days ago I posted about my conviction to think more about the things that are holy, true and lovely. One of the ways I've been doing that is by reading on the bus, both in the mornings and in the afternoons. Prior, I would just play with my iPhone or stare into space, but recently I've been reading "Heaven" by Randy Alcorn.

I originally bought the book back in July after some conversations with friends about "What heaven will be like?" and "What does the Bible say about heaven?" To be honest, I really didn't know a lot about heaven before reading this book. My preconceived notion was that heaven would be a spiritual, ethereal place where we would sit on clouds and play harps all day. My harp skills aren't that great, so heaven almost seemed boring. But Randy Alcorn points out many passages in the Bible that describe Heaven, or at least give us a small glimpse of what heaven will be like. It is described as a physical place where people who have died are aware of life on earth, remember their past lives, and are fully united together under God. This idea is almost crazy to me because it seems almost "un-spiritual" for our eternal selves to reside in some place physical. But Alcorn pulls all of his statements from Scripture. He also states that if we want to trust what the Bible says about heaven, then we must first examine and trust what it says about how to get there.

I'm only about 70 pages into the book, but I've really enjoyed every bit of it.