Pointers to heaven

I’ve got ten pointers to heaven to share starting with GOODNESS. Mrs Foster, the lady across the road in my childhood, exuded goodness which pointed beyond herself. I imagine heaven as a place thrilling with the goodness of God so evident in the neighbour who went out of her way for me as a child. Rembrandt’s lady painted in 1633 has a similar quality. The act of imagining heaven is a pointer to its existence since it would be strange to imagine it unless the aspiration had been sown in my heart. In my ten pointers to heaven I move on to TRUTH. Before I was ordained I was a scientist researching plastics preparing the way for the lightweight electrical components of today’s smartphones. In this pursuit I was drawn forward by the unveiling of truth my intelligence served [cf Blake’s picture of Newton]. I became convinced that mind is prior to matter. By extension, accepting the existence of a Mind and a realm beyond the whole material world is a logical belief, confirmed by th...