Drop What You Are Doing This Is Heaven

Our final destiny in life will be to join our creator in heaven after our long journey on earth ends. Before we go to the spirit, into the eternal light, we will learn what heaven is all about from a man who has more out of body experiences than most. With more of an extraordinary ability to receive and share visual information sent down from the heavens, spiritual messaging will come as a very big surprise. The inclusion of special meditations relieves inner tension, opens the spiritual eye within, and is the perfect solution to inner harmony between God and ourselves. Foreword Brighter than the twinkling stars in the sky, and yet softer than the wool on a baby lamb, the light of God will be upon us in the next life too. Abundantly so with goodness, and much to our delight, we will hardly be grasping it entirely, unless one has been immersed into and has experienced the connecting light while fully maximized. The fear of passing away should no longer exist in our mind. Complicated thinking is all that it is. Just as simple as knowing there is love in the afterlife, that is where our heart and soul belongs. Travel to heaven in the highway of your mind. It is very safe lifting a yielding conscious to achieve exceptional knowledge within the spirit world.

The 19 stories in Judah's debut explore the little known Jewish community of Bene Israel in India over the course of more than a century. Though Judah touches on a wide array of topics in these vignette-like stories of life in the fictional town of Jwalangart̮he fusion of Jewish and Indian (both Hindi and Muslim) customs, the India-Pakistan partition, the birth of Israelt̮he most prevalent theme is the underappreciated strength and wisdom of the community's women.

Popular culture continues to search the depths of the poetic imagination concerning heaven. It seems to be a constant theme in literature, film, and music, spanning genres throughout the Western world. Yet, some contemporary scholars suggest that all of these narratives are somewhat misguided and remain, at best, only partial constructions of a proper eschatology. The creative imagination in popular culture, especially in relation to the arts has often carried a less-than-trustworthy role in theology and philosophy. Heaven and the Popular Imagination analyzes a number of approaches within the theology of culture conversation to suggest that a hermeneutic of popular imagery can open up new horizons for understanding and challenging the role heaven plays in Christian theology. From ancient literature to popular music and films, heaven is part of the framework of our ecumenical imagining about beginnings and endings. Such a hermeneutic must encompass an interdisciplinary approach to theology.

Nicole Treadwell has a secret. If she reveals it, she will surely die. Of course, she knows it´s true because certain death is what he promised her after the "incident" in the deep woods years ago. Her fate ever in his hands, keeping the secret guts her on the inside as she struggles to make ends meet, serving as a law clerk to a dangerously ambitious judge in the Nation’s Capitol with secrets of her own. Nicole is tired--exhausted--toying with thoughts (she´s afraid to own) of letting life go. Her life is unraveling, her sound mind frayed. At the end of herself, she knows she can’t save herself, but who can? Worse, does she want to be saved? A swift reply to both questions comes in the way of a still, small voice at an unlikely time that ushers her onto a path few dare to tread or openly discuss. In contrast, Nicole´s former law school chumb and classmate, Timothy Grue, is a hotshot, private attorney who blazes notorious trails in and out of the courtroom. Both handsome and brash (owing to his kinship with privilege and social standing of a “fine” Philadelphia family), he seems to have the world on a string, every creature comfort easily within his reach, including an overabundance of company from the “fairer sex.” Despite his privilege and pedigree, Tim later learns that it came at a very high price. By a stroke of legal fortune (or misfortune), their paths collide professionally, as Tim is handpicked to represent an "A-List" Hollywood client in a lawsuit over which Nicole´s boss is the presiding judge. Not so secretly, the judge relishes the prospect of having her “fifteen seconds of fame” before the world press. Her staff knows that the attention from the paparazzi may prove to be her professional undoing--and theirs. Her job potentially on the line, Nicole contacts Tim Grue for a clandestine meeting of the minds, but will Tim take the bait and “sign on” to Nicole’s “harmless” solution? Their former friendship (on course to self-ignite or implode) sets in motion a chain of events that blast open the door to Nicole´s secret past and their bitter-sweet history; and where crises of identity, spirituality, and morality intersect, conflicting issues of race and class deepen already murky waters, as Nicole is black, and Timothy is white. Yet, as between the two, they want to know why race is still an issue at all? On the road from hell to higher ground, both learn that anything worth having is always tried by fires of a faith that asks, simply, what do you really believe? And more, can redemption ever come too late?

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Lucy Love goes out with her two best friends to a nightclub on her twenty first birthday. Betrayed by her friends and leaving the nightclub in a drugged state, she is run over and killed. Taken up to Heaven she is charged to become one of Heaven's Angels and is sent back to Earth to watch over and guide those in need. In her work she guards over a baby boy called Neaven Stars and watches him grow up into a fine, handsome, young man. She comes to love him dearly and feel that he is her soul mate. She returns to Heaven to plead with God that she might return to Earth to be with him. Her wish is granted but there is a condition—she won't have any memory of Neaven, nor who she was, and so her new life begins. Set in modern day Ireland, this heartwarming story is a moving tale of hope and love both lost and regained.

Heaven's Final is about Jody, a small, young mental genius, confined to a wheel chair for life and his superb mental power. Can Jody overcome his father's determination to use that ability for his own purpose? Jody would do anything for his sister whom he loves dearly, but will the battle with his father kill or save her? Will his craving need for friends he never had before become his defeat? Fortunately, Jody isn't alone. He has a stubborn and loving detective who befriends him, a ghostly angel who tries to protect him, and a mysterious, heavenly emissary who will carve out of the struggle between Jody and his father the final plan for Earth. Heaven's Final is the sequel to Heaven's Own, but can be read independently.