You live on Earth while you are anchored in Heaven. There is no distance between Us. I am everywhere, and you are everywhere with Me. I am in Heaven, and, therefore, you are in Heaven. Heaven is a state of mind, and yet Heaven is more. Heaven is a Reality. Heaven is not fiction. Your perception of Earth life is fiction. Your caterwauling is fiction. Suffering is fiction. Illness is fiction.
I hear your protests. Pain is real, you say. Suffering is real. Illness is real. People die from it, you say.
Inasmuch as no one dies, dying is also fiction. Popular fiction. Fiction that a high price is paid for.
Either you are immortal, or you are not. Your body is mortal. You are immortal. If you were only a body, life would be such a limited thing. Here today and gone tomorrow, as they say. You and I are forever. That is the Reality.
What was Christ saying when he said you do not die? What was he saying when he said, "I am resurrected." You have to know that Christ is with you still. He is not, was not his body. This is as true for you as it is for Christ. Ashes to ashes refers to your body, not to you.
I understand that it is easier for you to believe in the visible rather than the invisible. Sight is a sense like any other. All the five senses belong to the body. Surely I don't collect bodies in Heaven. There is sight beyond seeing. There is knowing. If you could see Me, God, in a body, would I be more to you, or would I be less?
You have enough difficulty with your own physicality. Would you really want to keep your body forever? Would you always want to be on stage at the theater? You do like to go backstage, and take off your make-up and your costumes. After your performance in the theater, you do want to come Home where you can just be and not get caught up in all the performance and worldly matters.
As engaging as life on Earth is, it is not the only life. No question, life on Earth is a stand-out. It gets cheered, and it gets booed. You are not really in the show for all time, however. You do run off stage. Scenes come to an end. Acts come to an end. Plays come to an end.
Life on Earth is often lovely, lively, most beautiful, and it is also often sad, empty, and annoying. It is a given that physical life is short-term. When was it otherwise?
Death seems unreal because it is unreal. Death is not true, nor is life on Earth true. On Earth there are embodiments of Truth. Truth can be found on Earth because the Truth of you does exist always wherever you may be or wherever you may think you are.
Your True Voice cannot be heard by the ears. By the heart, your True Voice is heard. The Truth of you is contained within you. We can say in a manner of speech that the Truth of you runs along beside you, or We can say it runs way ahead of you, that which you call you, that which you are known by in the world, that which is a shell of you, a shell of you moved along by the vitality of your spirit. Call this vitality soul, if you like, for you are indeed a soul from Heaven who intermingles on Earth and then leaps back to Heaven from where your soul has never left. Everyone has a soul, and souls are beautiful even though they cannot be seen but known.