The Feeling of Heaven
Going to Heaven was the most beautiful experience I could ever imagine. The day I went to Heaven was a Sunday morning on the third of July in 2016. I was living in Austin, Texas and had a tiny apartment with my computer scientist boyfriend in Clarksville. I came back early that morning to the apartment having just given my life to Jesus the night before, only to walk into the kitchen and have a conversation with God. When my conversation with God over, I was filled in my heart with a Golden Light that came down from Heaven.
I will never forget how I felt that day when I walked outside to the parking lot full of the love and joy of Jesus only to encounter a car to my left about to hit me. Knowing that I was about to die, I was filled with feelings of immense peace, love, and joy as I entered into a dimension of pure, white Light. I saw my soul leave my body and go towards Heaven, I saw the cords of Light that connected all humanity, I saw Jesus embody the love of The Father. Yet, what was perhaps more amazing than all of the things I saw, was the way I felt.
The peace, love, and joy I felt on the other side was unlike anything else on Earth. As I was going up to Heaven through the clouds, I was filled with so much love and ecstasy that I felt I was about to explode. I was so worried what would happen when I actually got there! Then, I told God I wanted to share my story. In one second, I found myself among the clouds and blue skies, then was immediately sent back to Earth. My soul was plummeted back down into my body as I shook with all of love, joy and peace of Heaven within me.
As I stood there feet on the ground, I knew that all good feelings come from God and whatever is not from God is based in fear instead of love. Fear, after all, is the opposite of love, and so the opposite or absence of feeling. God taught me there when I landed about the perfection of the human soul and how emotions like anger are stored in our spirits, rather than our souls which are created of pure love and come from God. “Negative emotions” which come from fear feel so terrible because they have no basis in truth or love. Love is the ultimate reality and the only reality.
Heaven then is not so much a place, but a feeling of love and being with God completely. Yet, despite every feeling of Heaven, one of the things I loved the most was God’s gentleness. God spoke to me softly when I met Him and the angels never yelled or raised their voices. To God and the angels, my feelings were special and treated with care. I felt loved like a valuable piece of crystal God didn’t want to break. Our feelings, after all, are Holy Ground, and therefore a precious gift that comes from God.
You are made for peace, love, and joy.
Kathryn Elsie
