bonus3I sit next to the bathtub with an auger, trying to get out what is shaping up to be a phenomenal clog. It’s gross enough trying to get my own family’s hair out of the drain, but here I am working on a clog at someone else’s house. It is a tub belonging to a woman in my ward. As I twist the auger, I think to myself, “I’m just earning a few extra rooms in my mansion in Heaven.” I probably should be happy to do service for service’s sake, but no. I’m pretty nice, but not that nice.

The scriptures are full of promises of what will happen if we stay true and good during our lifetimes. It’s quite a popular topic at my house: what Heaven will be like. We’ll live in mansions, of course. Although everyone’s idea of their perfect house is different, so that should make things pretty interesting.

My children like to ask if there will be food in Heaven. I have to imagine so, because eating is so important in this mortal life. But maybe it will be eating just for pleasure’s sake, not for nutition, since our resurrected bodies won’t need that. Or maybe we’ll have something way more pleasurable than eating by that time. Or maybe we just won’t care. But it’s hard to imagine Heaven without warm chocolate chip cookies.

After getting bitten alive by mosquitos and fire ants all this week, we’ve had many discussions about whether there will be bugs in Heaven. (Maybe only pretty ones like butterflies?) My husband is convinced that they will all go to hell where they originally came from.

What will we look like in Heaven? It says that every hair on our heads will be restored. I imagine that’s metaphorical because that would be an awful lot of hair. Also I don’t want brown hair in Heaven. I want it to be curly and red. And I want to have green eyes. Do you think we’ll be able to pick? Will we even care? Will we only see each other’s spirits and that’s the thing that will be important to us? (I hope not because I really feel like I’m a redhead trapped in a brunette’s body.) It will be wonderful to see those who couldn’t walk or speak be able to finally have the Celestial bodies they were promised.

Do you think about your life in Heaven? Does it actually motivate you to behave better? Do you think we’ll be able to pick our hair color and eat wonderful food? Or will we only care about making planets and other more important issues?


Continue reading at the original source →