English language & literature

Heaven

“What does heaven look like?”

I would think when I was a teen.

People would say heaven is something beautiful outside of this world 

that Christians will go to once they die.

I was not lazy but neither was I very diligent.

If death was a passport to heaven, then it is not such a bad thing, isn’t it?

One day, at the university campus,

a female Christian leader quoted Matthew 11:12 “天國是努力進入的，努力的人就得著了”

That night, I made a dream, about my dream.

From then on, I worked like hell for it

like an unstoppable machine without fuel.

My dream was burning like a vibrant fire in the sprawling woods

I felt like being consumed by the violent fire in hell.

Bunyan put it right in Pilgrim’s Progress:

Only after being tried could we reach Heaven.

And now, I am in Heaven.