Lana Del Rey in her song “Young and Beautiful” says:
“Dear lord, when I get to heaven
Please let me bring my man
When he comes tell me that you’ll let him in
Father tell me if you can”
provoked a thought in me:
What does happen to our long time relationships on earth once we get to heaven? Those of us who spend a lifetime with a spouse- what happens to us? I love to imagine the answer.
Tucked away neatly in my mind I have a special filing cabinet and one of the drawers on it is labeled “questions for God when I get to heaven”.
The bible has this sort of hidden mysteriousness. There are still unanswered questions. To be honest I don’t really like mystery or suspense for that matter- in any way shape or form really- it just causes me anxiety, so when I say mysteriousness I mean something more along the lines of a hidden fairy utopia.
(Don’t make fun of me- yes I said fairy utopia.)
Think about it. How boring is a life with out a little mystery, a hidden surprise. Like finding the gum in the middle of a blow pop for the first time. If we knew everything about the people we love- wouldn’t that be boring?
Sometimes I imagine answers to questions I have for God. After listening to that Lana Del Rey song I thought, “Hmm I wonder if God will actually make a man and a woman into one person to form the ultimate human being!” Relax- I’m not being heretical- I just think it’s fun to dream. I like to wonder at the infinite possibilities of what God can do- cause he could do anything.
Believing in God shouldn’t ever be monotonous or boring. Believing moves and grows and changes. God can move and change what we know and understand far beyond our limited scope of possibilities. All we know is the reality of what we’ve seen, heard, touched, smelled, and tasted- and what we can dream up.
How exciting to think that beyond what has been recorded in the bible for us to read- stored in God’s heart- are conversations we’ve never heard, thoughts we’ve never been preview to, and answers to unanswered questions.
Questioning life, wondering about God, dreams, imagination, creativity: all are part of the process of understanding God.
It’ll be kinda fun one day to be standing with God and to be like “Hey, remember when I was listening to that Lana Del Rey song and I had that really weird thought about man and woman being one? Man! I was way off wasn’t I?” HaHa!
