Peace be to you.

I believe there is a popular song entitled,

I'm in heaven when I'm near you.

Now that indeed may be a kind of heaven,

but it is not the kind of heaven, however, to which we aspire.

In order to understand heaven, though it is in eternity, we must nevertheless begin by talking

about time.

Heaven is outside of time, but we have to use time to get there. It seems almost like a paradox.

Well, first of all, why must heaven be outside of time?

Simply because none of us would really want on this earth a kind of an endless existence,

if it were possible for us to live 400 years with some new kind of an endless existence. If it were possible for us to live

400 years with some new kind of vitamin, do you think that we would all swallow them?

There would certainly come one moment in our existence when we would want to die. If you

ever been in any one place in this earth

that you are absolutely sure would be one in which you

would want to spend every day of your life?

It is not very likely.

The mere extension of time to most of us

would probably be a curse instead of a blessing.

Then two of you ever notice that your happiest moments have come when eternity almost seemed

to get inside of your soul.

All great inspirations, certainly, are rather timeless,

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