Do you remember paintings that have a lot of mist in them? Perhaps a seascape with a person in a rowboat? The shore is covered in mist and hardly perceptible. It's there but barely seen. You can't really see it, and yet you see a hint of it. It's there, and yet you would have to row closer to shore to see it through the mist.
This may be how you view Heaven. You wish you could get closer to it. You wish you could touch it. You wish you could peer at it through the mist.
And, yet, beloveds, if there is the ocean, there has to be a shore. You don't have to see the shore miles before you get there. You don't really have to row to the shore in order to get there. The tide will pull you. The winds will blow you. You are already on your way. There really is nowhere else to go, beloveds.
The shores of Heaven are at your fingertips. You may already have landed, and the mist still blocks your view. The mist is in your eyes.
You desire to reach Heaven. I desire that you reach Heaven. I have set it all out so that you will. You are on your way. You cannot miss.
Sometimes your excursion on the water seems so slow. You are paddling, beloveds. And if there seems to be a lull, why, then, dribble your fingers in the water and enjoy drifting toward shore.
Sometimes you may feel that you are in white water rapids and your journey is swift, too swift for you, for you feel off-balance.
Here's the thing: You cannot be early nor can you be late. You can only be just on time.
Now, will you stop fussing? I have built it in that you will reach Heaven. I have built it in that you will make it to the center of Heaven. I speak figuratively here to answer a longing in your heart, but Heaven is Heaven. There are no outskirts really, and there is no center, unless We call all of Heaven the center of it. There is no end limit to Heaven that makes it quite right to say the center of Heaven.
I will tell you something else. The difference between Earth and Heaven is your awareness. Your awareness is not a little thing. Your awareness is major. It is paramount. Your awareness is something like those 3-D glasses you would get in a movie theater in the past. You were who you were at the theater. There was one movie on the screen. There weren't two or three movies on the screen. The movie was the same. And, yet, when you put the 3-D glasses on, the movie seemed like a different movie, a special movie. A special movie came into focus. Because you could see, the movie changed before your very eyes.
Without the glasses, the movie was flat. Viewed through the glasses, the movie came to life. With the glasses, you saw dimensions that you did not see without them.
This simile falls flat, however, in that you cannot just open up your awareness as you would a pair of glasses. You cannot snap your fingers, and have greater awareness appear. There seems to be no awareness genie that will do it all for you. Or is there?
You can call awareness to you. You can know you will have it. And when a greater awareness reaches you, it is not from your effort. It is as if a genie of awareness did present itself to you, and now you can see what before you could not see. What changed was your awareness. Awareness changes. It grows.