You Are in Eternity Right Now

Maybe heaven isn't a future state but a present depth. Not endless time after death, but the profound aliveness available right now. The question isn't whether you’ll enter eternity someday, but whether you’ll wake up to the eternity you’re already in.

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Manuel Enrique
October 23, 2024

Growing up Catholic, I was taught that eternity was something that happened after death. It was an infinite expanse of time stretching out after my earthly existence. Heaven was eternal life, a reward waiting for us if we lived virtuously. This shaped how I viewed time itself. Life was preparation, a prelude to the real thing.

Then I encountered a simple statement that cracked my understanding wide open: "You are in eternity now as much as you'll ever be." Wait, what? This collided hard with my childhood theology. If eternity was now, what did that mean for heaven? For death? For how I was living?

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