Why do you want to go to heaven?

There are some simple questions that can really get to the heart of what someone actually thinks about what God is like very quickly.

And probably the easiest is 'why do you want to go to heaven?'

Because if the answer is not 'I get to see God and just be in his presence' then you have someone who does not actually *love* God.

You can see it in their faces. You can hear it in the words that use or don't use.

And yet here is the greatest commandment 'Love the Lord your God'.

Can you *make* yourself love someone? Maybe?  I don't know. I'm thinking about this.

And in my head is the image of a child sitting at the feet of someone reading them a story, totally engrossed in what they are hearing, waiting for the next words that conjure up images in their head of what can be, and what carries them along, their hearts and minds and whole souls caught up in the words, the sounds and the moment.