Tag: heaven

Thinking about death, a part of me awaits the love that will last forever.

I began to see Heaven and Hell as ways to live instead of ways of to die. Heaven was connecting with others and myself in empathy; Hell was disconnecting from my own needs and consequently from others’ needs.

The end of the story is that I escaped my mental jail cell without losing my faith. But it wasn’t immediate or simple. It was a complicated process that involved trauma, unconventional theology classes, and listening to the unexpected, still, small voice of the Holy Spirit.

Heaven: A state of happiness.

In the LDS faith, death is viewed as a necessary step forward in what is known as the “Plan of Salvation” or the “Plan of Happiness.”

The same question would, of course, be faced by many religious people should their versions of an afterlife turn out to be wildly mistaken.

What does it mean to be fully alive? The most important spiritual question is: what does it mean to live the good life?