While I was exploring Ignatian spiritual formation in 2012, God started letting loose torrents of words I gathered as poems in my journal. They all began with a variant on, “Soul, when you first wake in Heaven....” 

I imagined moments when a person would be at an in-between time: able to remember their lives on the old Earth, but also beginning to see how their new lives might unfold in Heaven. Sometimes I had a particular person or people in mind, but not always.

I also immersed myself in studying Scripture and books about Heaven and the Kingdom of Heaven for a couple of years while writing Creating Local Arts Together: A Manual to Help Communities Reach Their Kingdom Goals. These are imaginative, but grounded in Jesus’ and other writers’ descriptions of Heaven. For a brief theological discussion, see the Theology page on this site. 
 
I partnered with Soren Iverson (SorenIverson.com) on Memories, David Oulashian (DavidOulashian.com) on Enslaved, Insane, Laughter, Relationships, and Suffering in expressing the sounds and spoken words in video form. Collaborating on God with a true artist—Lucy Rahner (LucyRahner.com)—took Dave and me to a new level of aesthetic and communicational brilliance.
 
Brian Schrag
BrianAtPlay.com