Is There A Black Heaven?

What is heaven to you? Walking on fluffy clouds? Playing harps and singing hymns? Wearing robes and wings?

Is this the place of eternal peace? Is this the place where you can meet up with your old family members? Will both of those happen together?

Do your previous biases go with you to heaven? Should you be happy in heaven?

Looking at all the paintings through the years of artistic interpretations of what heaven must look like, it seems everyone is white. There are plenty more paintings but these are the ones in museums, cathedrals and art history books. These have been our representations of heaven for the faithful to believe in.

In the daily obituaries there are statements that the recently deceased has ‘passed on’ or ‘gone to be with the Lord’ or ‘departed this life to be with Nanna and Pop-Pop’ for no one has ever come back to describe what is at the end of the light. There are no photos, so each of us must use our imaginations on what it will be like when we ‘cross over’.

The questions have already been raised about do we eat in heaven? Do we get fat in heaven? Do we poop in heaven? Do we have sex in heaven?

For years parents have told their children when the family pet dies, it is going to ‘Puppy Heaven’ or ‘Kitty Heaven’. I suppose by that rational there is a ‘Fishy Heaven’, a ‘Turtle Heaven’, a ‘Hamster Heaven’, etc. Some have decided that heaven is the ‘Garden of Eden’ with ALL the animals wandering freely and getting along with the angles.

So if there is a separate ‘Animal Heaven’ so you don’t trip over all those chickens or step in the cow pies, is there a ‘Black Heaven’?

Just we segregate ourselves down here on earth, is heaven the same?

Is there a ‘homosexual heaven’? Is there a ‘redneck heaven’? Is there a ‘children heaven’? Is there ‘veteran’s heaven’?

If your Nanna or Pop-Pop were not accustomed to the twenty-first cultural changes, do they adapt in heaven? How would you react to your long forgotten previous wife and her partner?

Do those who have gone before us understand the humanity struggle still existing until all are gone?

Heaven seems like a very complicated place especially if all your aforementioned beliefs don’t comply with the latest arrivals.