Lord's Prayer Series / Our God, Who's Art is Heaven...

Uniting voices in saying the Lord's Prayer together is a valued ritual in most Christian worship services.  I was never taught to say the Lord's Prayer.  I just knew it by listening and repeating it in unison with the entirety of congregation from the time I was a child. 
Sometimes, there is a difference in what we hear vs. what is actually being said.    
I have shared moments with children when they have repeated and offered what they heard which was much different from what was being said. 
Such as...'the pizza Christ be with you' or thinking the word 'Narthex' was a character from the 'Lorax'.    I have also heard more than once...'Our God Whose Art in Heaven'. 
Imagine it!!  Heaven as the most amazing art gallery of God's creation.   I like it! 

How would you draw heaven?  What would it look like?  Where would it be?  Who would be there?   Feeling artsy and inspired by the idea of God's Art Gallery, here is how I painted heaven from my mind. 
If I were asked, where is heaven, here is how I would respond.  It is right there…in the invisible space between us. Like when you have just the right viewing spot and can see the sun rise and the moon set at the same time.  Right there, all that space in-between. Because if we are looking for heaven elsewhere, we will never find it.  But if we know we can have it now and forever we can share in it together and always. 

We can choose heaven and fill the space with goodness or we can choose to fill it with divisiveness and make it a smaller and smaller space.  We can investigate its light or it’s darkness.  We can choose how heaven will be revealed between us.   
 
Heaven.  The space in between us to be filled with and make room for…kindness, warmth, comfort, generosity, forgiveness.  The people we love and who love us fill the space. 
It’s for everyone to experience.   
​You see, God is within us and around us now and forever.
And Jesus wanted us to experience it (heaven) in the now as well as the ‘after now’. 
So, if we know that God is within and all around us, then so is heaven.
 
So, where is heaven?   Heaven is where God is.  Heaven is who God is. Heaven is what God is.  Heaven is how God is.  Heaven is the space between us, do it well.

​Our God, whose art is Heaven!  Indeed! 

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