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[NOTE TO COMPULSIVE COMBATANTS: I realize the folks I share about below are quite controversial to many. Ranting against them will not garner much, if anything positive or at all from me on this thread. My mouth is still quite butchered up and I'm not quite as likely to be as charitable as I sometimes am. I obviously can't keep folks from writing like jerks about the following examples. I suspect I can ignore such jerk-iness above average, for me.]

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Excellent points, FK.

AS I reflect on the numerous narratives of visits to Heaven . . . the descriptions are

ALWAYS of

ROBUST EMOTIONALITY--not flighty and not idiotic or unfitting--

Just very INTENSELY APPROPRIATELY ROBUST EMOTIONALITY.

The very flowers and grasses are alive with emotion, joy, LIFE. In some narratives, it is as though the flowers turn and gleefully follow gazing at the Believers passing by.

!!!!JOY!!!! is an intensely and persistent expression rather commonly.

Love is intensely expressed; somehow without being maudlin.

Affirmations are exchanged easily, routinely, without phony affectation.

Eagerness to authentically prefer one another's priorities is consistently a way of being there--without being doormats or fawning.

What is described is the OPPOSITE of an intellectual/spiritual OHHHMMMMMMMMMMM unperturbed, sterile, emotionless average or SOP.

I certainly don't know a lot about Heaven, of course. However, I believe that a lot of those narratives are quite accurate. They just ring true to my spirit.

Roland Buck's ANGELS ON ASSIGNMENT is but one case in point:

http://www.angelsonassignment.org/

And Jesse DuPlantis as well as Mary Baxter also have vivid, convincing narratives to share. His story is unique in the anals of such in our era . . . because of the 5 hours in Heaven, he did not make it into the auditorium where he was the scheduled speaker until the middle of the service, or end of the music or some such. AND AS HE WAS MAKING HIS WAY FROM THE BACK TO THE FRONT TO SPEAK, FOLKS ON THE ASILE WHERE HE WAS WALKING UP, WERE SHOCKED TO SEE THAT HE WAS GIVING OFF A VISIBLE HEAVENLY GLOW a la Moses because of his 5 earth hours in Heaven. He had no idea he was giving off such a glow.

Here's his YouTube presentation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw-wM-u8-aA

And his website

http://www.jdm.org/jdmDefault.aspx

Jesse, BTW, was reared as a Roman Catholic et al and didn't really have that strong an opinion, originally, about Protty, Roman Catholic et al/Vatican related issues at all. He was just floating along doing his own thing until God apprehended him big time.

Mary K. Baxter, as do most such folks, also has a vivid narrative about hell.

Her website:

http://spiritlessons.com/Mary_K_Baxter_A_Divine_Revelation_of_Hell.htm

I find the better such narratives to be wonderfully affirming of God's Word about Heaven. And, to help folks realize that HEAVEN is not some wispy, etherial, wimpy, 'matrix' kind of NONPLACE. IT IS REAL. GOD OF THE ANGEL ARMIES IS REAL. IT IS TANGIBLE.

Anyway--may interested folks be edified and brought closer to Jesus in checking such things out.

Blessings,

Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dear brother in Christ, and thank you for the links!

!!!!JOY!!!! is an intensely and persistent expression rather commonly. Love is intensely expressed; somehow without being maudlin. Affirmations are exchanged easily, routinely, without phony affectation.

Yep, that sure sounds like it to me. Thanks for your post.